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at Raehills, I think the fallow buck is a bolder and fiercer 

 fighter than the red stag. As the Raehills Park is not 

 fenced off from the rest of the property, these bucks were 

 practically wild, and though easy enough to approach 

 when feeding on the grass lawns surrounding the house, 

 when once well away from that sanctuary they became 

 so exceeding wide awake as to offer difficult and 

 exciting wood - stalking, rarely indeed giving a fair 

 standing shot. 



In these days rabbits abounded in great numbers at 

 Raehills, and once each season they were the occasion of 

 an odd match between two of our host's keepers and two 

 of his guests, the two former, each armed with a worn- 

 down old stable-fork, backing themselves for a supper to 

 make a better score than any two guests using their 

 guns. From being seldom disturbed, the rabbits sat out 

 freely in the long grass of the park and its policies, and 

 the contending parties, after tossing for upper or lower 

 side of the park, then separated. The two guns, with a 

 man behind each for carrying, walked hither and thither, 

 making the best kill they could, while the two keepers, 



