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rifles used to average twenty -five stags a season, scaling 

 about 14 stone 12 lbs. quite clean. The heads were 

 unusually stout, wild, rough, and black, for before the 

 adjacent forest of Mamore was entirely surrounded by 

 wire by the late Mr. Thistlethwaite, the hinds of Corrour 

 found mates from there, from the Black Mount, Ben 

 Alder, and Ardverikie, so that no ground could possibly 

 be better placed for insuring an incessant change of 

 blood, while the hind ground of the lower lying parts 

 of Corrour was ever doing good service as a nursery 

 for the young stags of all the adjoining forests. In the 

 rutting season, before the Mamore wire was put up, so 

 continuous was the passing to and fro of stags that old 

 Allan MacCallum, who lived at Corrour Lodge during 

 the shooting season, ever kept a sharp and early look- 

 out " across the flat," over which the Black Mount deer 

 were wont to travel, and more than once Allan was in 

 time to wake his master and get him into the pass 

 leading to Corrie Craegacht, for which the deer usually 

 made, and so secure a good shot. On these occasions 

 Lucy, forced into a hasty toilette, merely pulled on his 



