32 LEAVES FROM A. GAME BOOK. 



though able to feel all the charm, I am quite at a 

 loss to describe it adequately. 



Needless to say, our two Highlanders had paid 

 no attention to any matters of this sort, but in lieu 

 thereof they had taken up positions wide apart from 

 each other, while, lying on their backs, they were 

 busily engaged in spying. As the "second" forester 

 happened to be the nearer to us, we squatted beside 

 him, also getting out our glasses to share in the 

 search. Presently there came from the head man a 

 great grunt, and, turning towards him, the sound was 

 emphasized by an outstretched arm terminating in an 

 enormously large pointing forefinger, which certainly had 

 not seen soap that morning. It was clear he had found 

 deer, so putting our glasses on to the spot indicated, we 

 soon made out a small herd of eight stags some two miles 

 distant right in front of us, and on the very edge of the 

 hill we had just come up. Then ensued a whispered, 

 though seemingly excited, talk in Gaelic, which sounded to 

 us as if there was some small difference of opinion as to 

 the best method of making the attack ; so we also held a 



