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of Kinlochluichart, and " The Field," without mention- 

 ing weights, states he got twenty-five stags on it. 

 In connection with this forest there is the story 

 of the " wild man of Fannich," which has given 

 rise to the supposition that it is our clothes and 

 not our bodies that give that taint to the breezes 

 which the deer so easily scent from afar. The story 

 of the wild man relates how a "softie" of those 

 parts escaped from his friends, at the end of one 

 October, and his crank being that he was a beast 

 of the fields, he concealed himself in a cave in 

 Fannich, and after divesting himself of all clothing, 

 he found that the deer soon allowed him to 

 approach, and eventually to herd with them. 

 Here, for nearly a year, this mad but hardy 

 being remained undiscovered ; but his body became 

 so covered with hair, and so matted with dirt, that it 

 formed a kind of garment for him ; he was eventually 

 discovered by a stalking party in the midst of a herd 

 of deer, in the September following his disappearance, 

 and being captured, was returned to his friends. 



