PERTHSHIRE. 213 



ground of Atholl is much worked or kept quiet, as 

 all the best stags are there ; thus with both conditions 

 unfavourable, it is possible to go to the hill for many 

 days in succession without seeing a shootable beast. 

 The last tenant was limited to forty-five stags and got 

 but twenty-four, which averaged 14 stone 8 lbs. clean. 

 Major Baldock met with a curious experience in 

 the month of this last September, for having wounded 

 a stag, he lost sight of him after a long pursuit, and 

 only came up with him late in the evening quite 

 in the dusk, when the stag was seen on the sky-line 

 going very slowly and stopping every now and again. 

 The next day the Major was obliged to drive to 

 Struan in the morning, so telling his stalker to 

 start off to try and find the beast, he ordered him, 

 if successful, to send word back to the house by 

 mid-day. When Major Baldock returned, he found 

 the stalker there to say that having made out the 

 stag, he had left a man to watch him, whereupon the 

 Major started to stalk the stag ; as he got near, the 

 animal laid down, when, after waiting on him for 



