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future developments. I was, in fact, in the act 

 of creeping up to this obstacle, when suddenly out 

 of a little pocket up sprang a hind and calf about 

 100 yards to my left. At the same moment eight 

 hinds appeared on the sky-line to the left, and at 

 once noticed the startled deer, and made a sudden 

 move, which I knew would be noticed by the big 

 herd of deer in front and above me. Accordingly 

 I moved upwards rapidly, and lay on the mound 

 expecting to get in a long shot. By the fraction of 

 a second, however, I was just too late. All the hinds 

 at some 400 yards distance had run together and 

 massed round the stag, who, being so near the 

 march, had no intention of halting to study causes 

 of alarm, but immediately ran over the edge of 

 the hill and out of sight. After this disappointment 

 a long walk round the tops and above the Loch Tilt 

 Glen proved a failure as far as stags were concerned, 

 and we found nothing except large herds of hinds. 

 October 1st. — I went south to-day to Glen Mohr, 

 between the mountains of Ben Ivan and Carn-na- 

 Righ, to fetch in a stag shot by Calder on the 

 previous day. On the top of Carn-na-Righ was a 

 nice ten-pointer, but I decided to leave him alone, 

 as he looked Uke a young and growing stag, and in 

 Glen Mohr only found some eight unshootable 

 beasts. Having sent home Calder's stag, Sandy 

 Kennedy, the shepherd, and I climbed to the 

 top of Ben Ivan and descended Glen Beig without 

 seeing anything of interest. However, in the home 

 beat above the Fealar burn I discovered a big herd 

 of deer, quite two hundred hinds with two excellent 

 stags, a nine- and a ten-pointer. After a long wait to 

 allow them to feed out of the glen to some broken 



