LEAVES FEOM A GAME BOOK. 79 



October. The best of tbe grouse shooting being over, 

 the greater part of the time was devoted to stalking, 

 and we only bagged 108 grouse and 12 ptarmigan, 

 with some few hares, snipe, and black-game. This 

 season was ever afterwards alluded to by us as the 

 " missing " one, for we both shot badly. What Lucy did 

 I will not record, but I can safely say I beat him hand- 

 somely, for I had fourteen good shots and killed but two 

 stags. Now how that happened puzzles me to this 

 day ; however, there is the melancholy fact, only to be 

 erased from my memory later on by a score of sixteen 

 stags for eighteen bullets. 



On October 6th we were joined by the late Lord 

 Alexander Paget, as keen a stalker and as pleasant 

 a companion as I ever met. Poor " Dandy " — or 

 as old Allan McCallum, the head forester, always 

 called him, "Yon Lord Dandy" — also had his share 

 of Corrour bad luck that season, for in the six 

 days following his advent he was out early and 

 home late in all sorts of weather, and though Lucy 

 sent him each day to the best ground, he got 



