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slithering after the stalker down the south side of this 

 hill. Some stags below them got their wind, and 

 breaking in all directions, Mrs. Mitchell Innes picked 

 out two of the best, killing them right and left, when 

 going at full gallop in opposite directions, and though 

 the beasts were rightly struck, unfortunately they 

 rolled down the very steep hill, both being much 

 smashed up. It was in this forest that the celebrated 

 deerstalker, Black Finlay Macrae, lived with his 

 master, Mackenzie of Gairloch. It was his duty to 

 keep the larder well supplied with venison, which for 

 many years was an easy matter ; after a time, 

 however, Finlay began to find a great difficulty in 

 getting stags, and eventually he discovered that some 

 poacher was ever in front of him in most of his 

 stalking trips, so much so that venison became quite 

 scarce in his master's house, while reproaches were 

 heaped on him for his want of skill. For a long time 

 Finlay had thought that the poacher was a certain 

 Big Donald Kennedy, and at last one morning he 

 surprised him in the act of gralloching a newly-killed 



