6s 2 ftfngs of tbe 1Rofc, 1Rifle t ant) Gun 



borne in triumph to the Council tent, where certain 

 formalities were gone through, and then, amid tremendous 

 cheering, Corporal Cameron came forth the officially 

 recognised winner of the Queen's Prize for 1869. 



There was one hospitable formality, however, in which 

 Angus Cameron did not participate. The Victorias 

 then claimed the prescriptive right of handing their 

 splendid regimental loving-cup, foaming with champagne, 

 to the winner of the Queen's Prize, and I have not 

 forgotten the look of disgust on the faces of those gallant 

 and hospitable Victorias when, on the occasion of his 

 first winning the coveted guerdon, the little Highlander 

 refused the proffered goblet and asked for a bottle of 

 ginger beer ! He was a teetotaller, and teetotallers were 

 not common then among the countrymen of Robbie 

 Burns. 



Cameron's great exploit was rendered the more 

 remarkable from the fact that between his first and 

 second triumph he had lost the sight of his right eye, 

 and had to shoot on the second occasion from the left 

 shoulder instead of the right as before. Not long after- 

 wards the sight of his remaining eye became so bad that 

 he gave up rifle-shooting altogether. 



I am indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of The 

 Inverness Courier for the information that Angus 

 Cameron has long since left Kingussie, and has been for 

 some years a resident at Blair Atholl, where he now 

 4( pursues golfing with something of the enthusiasm which 

 he formerly devoted to rifle-shooting." 



Cameron is or was a jeweller by trade, and it is matter 

 for regret that he should have had to give up shooting 



