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shake his head, Campbell to sigh deeply as 

 was his wont. They had waited two hours, 

 but as far as the stags in sight above them 

 were concerned they might wait twelve. The 

 beasts showed no signs of moving nor of re- 

 linquishing their point of full view and 

 vantage, and there were too many deer else- 

 where to try and circumvent them. " If 



Mistress M will wait here " (she had 



waited two hours, so it was nothing new), " I 

 wull craal round and see if there is anything 

 else." So away crawled Dewar, leaving 



Mistress M and Campbell still to wait. 



In less than twenty minutes Dewar "craaled" 

 back again. " There is a bonnie stag with 

 only two hinds near him," was the welcome 

 report. A little farther on, and a circuitous 

 route of peat bogs, knollies, gullies, and burns 

 led them to within little over two hundred 

 yards of him. Here Campbell and Dewar's 

 dog were left to wait, whilst the stalker and 

 the rifle took to their knees. It was an uphill 

 crawl, the best heart-beating warrant known. 

 The stag was lying (those lying stags, what 



