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this stag was, while at the same time he was equally 

 aware he was a dangerous beast. The rash man 

 had not even so much as a stout stick with him, 

 and had gone but a short distance ere he was 

 attacked and killed, his cries for help being heard, 

 but not understood, by some women in the road. 

 His cap was found where the struggle began, some 

 sixty yards from his body, and clearly he had fought 

 hard for his life, for Maclennan was a strong man 

 of over six feet. The poor fellow was found lying 

 with his head on his arm, very little knocked 

 about, and pierced but in two places, one wound 

 being in the stomach and the other in the heart. 

 He lies buried in the churchyard of Lochbroom, 

 and his epitaph, affixed by Mr. Bignold, is, "Tot 

 cervorum victor non senectuti sed cervo cessit." 

 Previous to the death of Maclennan one of Mr. 

 Bignold's foresters, Duncan Fraser, had had three- 

 quarters of an hour's fight for his life with this very 

 stag, who surprised him quite unarmed, whereupon 

 Duncan instantly jumped plump on to the stag's 



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