330 THE HERD IN JEOPARDY. 



the next ridge of the hill, when he suddenly tossed his arms 

 aloft, like Gilpin Horner, and pranced forward to a third 

 deer which lay dead beyond him. 



It takes up a considerable time to clean three deer and 

 prepare them properly, so that during this operation the 

 herd had leisure and opportunity to get forward and select 

 their own ground, which they did, by going into glen 

 Dirie, and moving along the steep stony tracks on the 

 western face of Ben-y-venie. 



" Here, Sandy, another glass of Loch Rannoch, the 

 Doch-an~dorroch, ye ken ; off with it. So now go up 

 Ben-y-chait, taking care to cross the glen out of sight of 

 the deer, and to keep them from the west. We will go 

 forward right up Ben-y-venie." 



Sandy Mackintosh was a capital fellow of the antelope 

 sort, and put out his long legs nimbly, so that he was 

 quickly on his ground, as also was the rifleman. The deer 

 were soon discovered winding among the crags below : and 

 keen Sandy was so alert and judicious in his motions, 

 that he kept them on that precipitous side of the moun- 

 tain. 



" See, see, he has turned them up our hill again, and 

 they are coming up the steeps at the old place ! Forward, 

 forward, run low, low ; we shall have them again to a 

 certainty." 



He did indeed have them with a witness, and came right 

 up with a string of them, running immediately below him at 

 an easy distance. Go which way they chose they could not 

 now escape him ; a vast hollow of the hill side lay beneath 

 fully exposed to his view ; so he stood on the commanding 

 crags, without the slightest attempt at concealment, and 



