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when held on tlie leash, followed the track of a wounded 

 stag, and that, too, in most unfavourable, rainy weather, 

 for three successive days, at the end of which time the stag 

 was shot. The present Glengarry wrote me an account of it, 

 in which he mentions, " he," the stag, " was wounded just 

 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 his hoof, and another over it ; and this 

 they did each night following. On the succeeding morning 

 they removed the upper stone, when the dog recovered the 

 scent, and the stag was that day traced over a great part of 

 Glenmoriston's grounds. On the third day he was re-traced 

 to the lands of Glengarry, and there shot." 



Glengarry also furnished me with the following gallant 

 achievement of one of his dogs. He says, " My present 

 dog, Comhstri, to great courage unites the quality of a gentle 

 disposition, with much fidelity and attachment. Though 

 not so large as some of his kindred, he is nevertheless as 

 high-spirited and determined as any of his race, which the 

 following circumstance will testify : — 



" About three years ago, a deer from the wood of Derry- 

 garbh, whose previous wounds had been healed, came out of 

 Glengarry's pass, who wounded it in the body with a rifle 

 bullet. The deerhounds were immediately laid on the 

 blood-track. The stag was started in the course of a few 

 minutes ; the dogs were instantly slipped, and the fine ani- 

 mal ran to bay in a deep pool of water, below a cascade, on 

 the Garyquulach stream. Comhstri immediately plunged 

 in, and seized the stag by the throat, both went under water, 

 surrounded with the white foam, slightly tinged with the 

 deer's blood. The dog soon came to the surface to recover 

 his breath, and before the stag could do so, Comhstri dived. 



