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been a little too high and too forward, though it made all the difference 

 when seconded hy a smashed leg. How I admired him, my first stag ! 

 He had a fair head of eight points, and was in good condition, and after 

 seeing him duly gralloched and slung on the pony, we subsided into 

 whisky and sandwiches, smoked a weed, and then finished our day's 

 grousing, though the sport seemed tame after shooting that deer. Jock 

 presented me with the head, which I left at Paton's a day or two after 

 to be set up for me as I went south. 



Later on Charley got two or three stags to his own gun, and wound up 

 his first season at Craig Darroch with a capital total of 700 brace of grouse, 

 besides blackgame, stags, ptarmigan, snipe, woodcock, and wildfowl, 

 amongst which he got a pair of wild swans and a great northern diver 

 on the loch. I shot with him at Craig Darroch for two more seasons, 

 and then he got married and gave it up to a friend of Jock's, who paid a 

 round figure for it. 



'.A KOOBIRH TOrSN," 



