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the water's edge without damage, and then tramping off 

 to the lonely cottage by the waves, the ponies were 

 saddled, and, making the best of our way home, a little 

 past nine o'clock found us seated at the dinner-table. 



The next morning we all went to see our quarry 

 hanging in the larder, when Lightfoot and I had to face 

 a lot of rather severe chaff from Williams about our wild 

 shooting at the beast with the three bullets in him. 

 However, there was nothing to be done except grin and 

 bear it. The day following, however, the Colonel was 

 stalking by himself with the head forester, and sent home 

 a good beast, and when next morning we made the usual 

 trip to the larder, to our great joy we saw this stag had 

 two bullets in his haunches, one in his entrails, and one 

 in his heart ! Needless to say that as we saw this sorry 

 sight we were quick to recognise our opportunity for 

 retaliation had come, and, though the Colonel was a good 

 bit our senior, we made the most of it. 



The Knoydart deer of those days were not very heavy 

 either in body or horn, but in 1893 the estate was pur- 

 chased by Mr. E. Salvin Bowlby, of Gilston Park, Herts, 



