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some business, and, owing to repeated breaks, Corrour 

 was only eventually reached by ten o'clock, where we 

 found Williams, who had brought home twenty- seven 

 brace of grouse, well-nigh famished, as he had all too 

 politely waited dinner for us. Later on my host sent 

 me to bed in a most happy frame of mind, by telling 

 me to have the head packed and sent off, to be set up 

 for my very own. The next day, although it was " the 

 Saabeth," we weighed him 21 stone quite clean — that 

 is, without heart or liver. The total bag at Corrour 

 this season, up to the 14th of September — " twenty- 

 seven days out, eight of them very wet and only half 

 days " — was : — 

 6 stags. 

 52 ptarmigan. 



1804 grouse. 

 117 various (hares, ducks, snipe, and black-game). 



1979 



As Charles Williams only shot grouse for three days, 

 this was a bag that any two guns might fairly be proud 

 of making. The grouse were all shot over dogs, while 



