52 LEAVES FEOM A GAME BOOK. 



Spencer Lucy, of Charlecote Park, Warwick, to spend a 

 month with him in the Highlands at Corrour in Inverness- 

 shire, the 11th of the month saw us arrive at the lodge 

 in the dusk of evening. This was no easy place to get at, 

 for on quitting the limited mail at Struan Station, first 

 there came a ten-mile drive to Kinloch Rannoch ,• there 

 horses were changed for a further jolt of another twelve 

 miles along the side of Loch Rannoch until "The Barracks" 

 was reached, at a little distance beyond the head of the 

 loch. Here our baggage was put out on to the heather, 

 while close at . hand three stout gillies with four ponies 

 were in waiting. One of these ponies bore a deer saddle, 

 another was harnessed to a diminutive two-wheeled cart, 

 while the other two carried riding saddles. After seeing 

 to the packing of our luggage, some in the cart, some 

 slung on the deer saddle, and locking up in a shed any 

 articles that could not be carried forward that day, Lucy 

 mounted his pony " Maggie," a clever, well-shaped mare, 

 and I having done the same by " Jack," we broke into a 

 trot, soon leaving the baggage train behind us. At a 

 turn of the track I caught sight of them, and noticed that 



