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neral sport ; and here shall end our stalking ; here on the 

 old rocks of Cairn-cherie, never to be forgotten, till we 

 depart to where Tullus and Ancus have gone before us." 



The party now began to occupy their posts. The 

 riflemen remained on the middle hill ; Maclaren was sent 

 across by the Craggan-Breach to Sroin-a-chro, and Sandy 

 Macintosh to Ben-y-chait. All came forward at the 

 signal, which was the exposure of some man's shirt, by 

 means of unbuttoning his waistcoat ; a luminous mark, 

 that could be readily discerned through the telescope, 

 which each man carried with him, placed in a leathern 

 case and slung in a belt across his shoulders. 



The sport now about to take place, as far as driving 

 went, was very similar to that practised in a deer-drive to 

 Glen Tilt ; but in the termination it differed materially ; 

 for instead of running the gauntlet as the deer did at Glen 

 Tilt, and j assing freely onward to the heights of Ben-y- 

 gloe, they were, in this instance, to be pressed on to the 

 pine wood, that formed the barrier between the mountain 

 slope, and the cultivated strath of the Tay. This wood 

 was held by them a place of refuge; and when they 

 gained it, the sport was understood to be terminated, 

 though a hart or two might occasionally be killed after 

 their entrance into it. These woods are fenced on the 

 moor-side by a stone dike, and behind this dike some of 

 the parties that came from Blair were posted ; so that the 

 little army of deer were thus placed between two fires 

 that is to say, between the rifles of the sportsmen who 

 brought them down from the mountains, and those who 

 opposed their passage into the wood : thus beset, in front 

 and rear, and at their flanks, all their sagacity was called 



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