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quicldy.' \\Taile they were performing this necessary 

 operation Maccombich, who had joined them, and was 

 keeping watch around them, touched his arm, and point- 

 ing with one hand showed him three fine stags moving 

 off to the further hill, alarmed, no doubt, by the re- 

 ports of the rifles, and probably by the exclamations of 

 Tresham. * Grod bless me ; this is a lesson I shall not 

 forget,' said the mortified young man. The hunters 

 advanced to break the deer, as it is called, by cutting 

 the throat and disembowelling it ; and while Maccom- 

 bich was performing this sportsmanlike duty, it was 

 amusing to watch the rapture to which, when unre- 

 strained by habitual caution, he now gave full way on 

 the glad occasion of a successful shot. Apostrophising 

 it in Graelic, he addressed to it every reproachful epithet 

 he could think of as a villain which had so often baffled 

 their murderous efforts. It was a scoundrel and a 

 rascal, and a devil, to whom he wished a bad end, and 

 whose soul, heart, and liver he gave to the devil ; then 

 changing his tone, he lavished upon it every expression 

 of endearment. It was his dear, his darling, his bonny 

 beast, his cattle, his love. He seemed to abandon him- 

 self to the intoxication of delight, and it was singular to 

 see a man, habitually grave and reserved, acting as if he 

 was deprived of reason." 



Glenfeshie, in Badenoch, affords very good deer-stalk- 

 ing, a party having killed in one day seven stags, all in 

 very good condition. At Grarrick a Mr. Littledale had 

 three to his own rifle in one day. Lord Alexander Rus- 

 sell accomphshed a similar feat in one day at Rothie- 

 murchus. A correspondent in Perthshire says : " There 

 has lately been a large party at his Grrace the Duke of 



