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since 1887 only one has turned the scale at 

 20 stone. Mr. Williams, however, spares many 

 of the finest heads, neither does he permit his 

 foresters to pick off the best hinds in the winter, 

 and by these means he has greatly improved his 

 stock of deer, both in numbers and in quality — 

 an example which more of the forest renters might 

 follow with advantage. 



In 1892 a most vexatious piece of bad luck 

 happened here to Mr. Mackenzie, when in the dusk 

 he fired at a stag in Glen Kyllachy, and the bullet 

 striking the base of the horn, the stag escaped. 

 Mr. Mackenzie having had this stag in view for some 

 time, was therefore able to recognise him again 

 three days later in Macleay's shop in Inverness, 

 when he turned out to be a splendid fourteen- 

 pointer, who carried the mark of Mr. Mackenzie's 

 bullet on his horn, whilst vexatiously enough the beast 

 proved to be the second best head got in Scotland 

 that season. 



