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late in the season, and added to this, on each 

 side of the glen there is some six miles of wood. 

 It carries two rifles, but takes a third during the 

 last few days of the first fortnight in October. The 

 kill is limited to sixty stags, which are weighed 

 with heart and liver, and owing to careful nursing, 

 combined with good management, a steadily increasing 

 gain of weight is being established, for while in 

 Mr. Barry's first year, of 1892, the average was but 

 13 stone 6 lbs., it has been steadily increased, until 

 in 1895 it reached 14 stone 5 lbs. ; an improvement 

 which the lessee is hopeful of augmenting for several 

 seasons to come. On the 9th of October, 1893, 

 Mr. Barry had the good fortune to secure a re- 

 markable three-horned stag, of whose head an 

 illustration is given ; his curious head proved his 

 death-warrant, for he was much run when shot, 

 and only killed for the sake of the extraordinary 

 horns, each one having a distinct coronet, the right 

 horn being 26 inches in length, and the two left 

 ones 22 and 22 \ inches. In October, 1895, Mr. 



