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limping out of the cover, pursued by the dogs, and 

 directing his course to the sheet of water, as had been 

 anticipated by the jager. He dashed into it, closely pur- 

 sued by his enemies. Before he had swam a few yards 

 the dogs overtook him and dragged him to the shore. 

 The two jagers, who had run full speed to the side of 

 the water, soon dispatched the stag with their couteaux 

 de chasse. His antlers were very large ; and he was a 

 full-grown deer. I returned home much pleased with 

 my morning's adventure. 



The following circumstance will prove the exquisite 

 sense of smelling possessed by the Highland deer-hound. 

 One of this kind, named Bran, when held in a leash, 

 followed the track of a wounded stag, and that in most 

 unfavourable rainy weather, for three successive days, at 

 the end of which time the deer was shot. He was 

 wounded first within nine miles of Invergarry House, 

 and was traced that night to the estate of Glenmoriston. 

 At dusk in the evening the deer-stalkers placed a stone 

 on each side of the last fresh print of the hoof and 

 another over it, and this they did each night following. 

 On the succeeding morning they removed the upper 

 stone, when the dog discovered the scent, and the deer 

 was that day traced over a great part of Grleumoriston's 

 grounds. On the third day he was retraced to the lands 

 of Glengarry, and there shot. 



A remarkable instance of the sagacity displayed by a 

 deer-hound is illustrated in the following anecdote. "A 

 gentleman walking along the road to Kingston Hill, ac- 

 companied by a friend and a noble deer-hound, which 

 was also a retriever, threw his glove into a ditch ; and 

 having walked on for a mile, sent his dog back for it. 

 After waiting a considerable time, and the dog not re- 



