12 LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. 



CHAPTER II. 



1887. 



Commencing, then, with the year 1887, I found myself 

 a shareholder in a joint-stock shooting company, having 

 only once before been a partner in a similar concern ; 

 and this investment, like the first, proved a really good 

 one, for, in proportion to the money sunk, it yielded 

 splendid dividends in the shape of excellent sport, merry 

 companions, and the making of some lasting friendships. 

 Major James Ramsay was our chairman and managing 

 director, and right well he knew his business. John 

 Baird of Knoydart, Francis Tress Barry (the present 

 member for Windsor) and I made up the shareholders. 

 We "struck oil" on the Carim shootings in Perthshire, 

 a property belonging to that good landlord, Captain 

 Home Drummond Murray of Abercairney. 



The lodge, some four miles from Blackford Station, 

 was prettily placed on the slope of the Ochill Hills, and 



