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together and Capel and Doggie Smith. As I could 

 not shoot, Lady Margaret Gore said that she would 

 show me how to catch a salmon, but she got never a 

 bite ; so we hunted rabbits with a terrier dog, and 

 her hound language was excellent. 



The Duke sent me and Bill Bentinck to the deer 

 forest one day, and if we found a stag with the velvet 

 off his horns we might shoot him. We saw hundreds 

 of deer but never a fit one. It was very interesting 

 lying on the heather watching them. Old Duncan, 

 the head forester, had been with old Lord Kintore 

 when he had the hounds at Turriff. I left on i5th, 

 and returned home. 



