238 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



Sir Charles was away, the stag the forester was 

 watching got up and moved off, and the man not 

 liking to lose sight of him went on also, and thus 

 when Sir Charles returned he found himself quite 

 alone on the hill, and being unable to " pick up " 

 his man by the aid of his glass, he turned short 

 round and continued his way into the forest, where 

 he soon found two stags, which he stalked, killed, 

 and gralloched for himself, and then before he came 

 home late that evening he got one more stalk at a 

 small herd, out of which he killed three, thus leaving 

 five good stags on the hill for the ponies to fetch 

 home next day, the heaviest of which was 21 stone 

 and the smallest 16 stone. All five of these beasts 

 fell on such steep ground that they had to be cut in 

 halves, and carried by the gillies to a spot accessible 

 to the ponies, sent from Inchnadamph. 



FOREST OF BEN WYVIS BY EVANTON. 



This well-known forest, so closely associated with 

 the name of that devoted admirer of deer, the late 



