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In 1866 Millais rented from Sir William Cunliffe 

 Brooks the shootings of Callander and a small part 

 of Glen Artney, immortalised in the " Lady of the 

 Lake." As a specimen of the sport he had there 

 during his fifteen years' tenancy, I quote the following 

 passage from Mr. John Guille Millais : 



" During this period (1867-1871) he enjoyed excellent 

 deer-stalking on Braemore, Fannich, Loch Luichart, 

 Dunrobin, and Loch More. Many splendid stags, in- 

 cluding five royals, fell to his rifle. Some of his best 

 and most exciting stalks were on Braemore. There 

 is a capital sketch by him in the game-book at that 

 house, in which he appears standing over two fine harts 

 that he had killed right and left after a long and 

 exciting stalk. But it was of his pursuit of a big 

 ten-pointer on Loch Luichart that he was most fond 

 of talking. The weather had been cold and wet, which 

 as all sportsmen know, keeps deer constantly on the 

 alert, and for three days he had stalked the ten-pointer 

 without getting a shot. At last they found him in 

 company with a herd of fifty other deer, and amongst 

 them an eight-pointer, very nearly as good as the other 

 fellow. They were feeding near the head of a big 

 corrie ; but getting a puff of wind from one of the 

 back eddies, they all made off along a pass well known 

 to the stalker. However, a sharp piece ol manoeuvring 

 and a quick run enabled the shooters to cut them off, 

 and with two shots Millais killed both the big stags 

 as they came galloping by at full speed. 



He was now so successful with the rifle that his 

 friend Joe Jopling, a member of the English eight, 



