80 LEAVES FKOM A GAME BOOK. 



but a single shot in all the time, when, however, he 

 made a kill. 



During Paget's visit an incident happened which made 

 both Lucy and I laugh on one side of our faces and 

 " swear " on the other. It so happened that we met by 

 accident on the top of the hill overlooking Corrour Lodge. 

 It was quite early in the afternoon, but as each of us 

 had spied the whole of his beat without seeing so 

 much as a horn of any sort, we were making the best 

 of our way home, each carrying his share of an attack 

 of the "dolefuls." We had hardly exchanged greetings 

 and commenced the descent, when on our left front we 

 heard the reports of two barrels, followed at once by 

 two others. 



** What on earth can that be ? " said Lucy, as we 

 dropped on our backs and pulled out the glasses. 



*' The light is so bad," continued he, " that I can't 

 make out who they are, but I'm nearly sure they must be 

 some of the Rannoch Lodge people who have strayed off 

 their march, and if that is the case, they will not get 

 back to Rannoch till long after dark, so let us go down 



