2 DEEE-STALKING. 



to taste the highest flavour of shooting kno"\Mi to 

 the British islands. But that is no reason the cim- 

 nmg of the noble pastime should not he set before 

 him. On the contraiy, because his opportunities 

 of indulging in it — if, indeed, he ever have any — 

 "will most certainly be " few and far between," the 

 best means of insuring success, should the chance 

 occur, ought to be made available to him. Details of 

 its Stirling scenes and associations, the economy of 

 its perilous pleasure, while exciting his interest, will 

 ser\^e to tell how stags were won — and, it may be, 

 enable him to do so likewise : to this we address 

 ourselves. 



The sport of deer-stalking, as pursued in Great 

 Britain, is followed only in certain portions of the 

 Scottish Highlands ; for though stags are shot in the 

 royal chases in England, as well as in private parks, 

 the method of doing so is far from sporting, and the 

 practice confined to game-keepers. The principal 

 districts where stalking is enjoyed are Athol Forest, 

 the Sutherland Forests, the Forest of Marr, the 

 Forest of Conichbach, Lord Lovat's Ross-shire haimts, 

 Glenfiddich and Gaick in the county of the Gordon, 

 Glenartney, besides others of less note. The former 

 of these, Mr. Scrope states, contains an area of one 

 hundred thousand acres, and is upwards of forty 

 miles in length : it has, however, only recently been 

 devoted to the rearing and preserving of red deer. 

 The Sutherland Forests are fifty miles long, and 

 embrace some of the -wildest scenery of Scotland. It 



