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window the outline of a range of hills, where the original 

 red-deer of Ireland are still existing none of your 

 park-fed venison, that tame, spiritless, diminutive, 

 which a boy may assassinate with his " birding-piece," 

 but the remnant of that noble stock, which hunters of 

 other days, O'Connor the Cus Dhu* and Cortnac Bazvn 

 Mac Tavish, once delighted in pursuing. 



The offices of this wild dwelling are well adapted to the 

 edifice. In winter the ponies have their stable, and kine 

 and sheep a comfortable shed. Nor are the dogs for- 

 gotten ; for them a warm and sheltered kennel is fitted 

 up with benches, and well provided with straw. Many 

 a sporting-lodge in England, on which thousands have 

 been expended, lacks the comforts of my kinsman's 

 unpretending cottage. Where are the coach-houses ? 

 Those, indeed, would be useless appendages ; for the 

 nearest road on which a wheel could turn is ten miles 

 distant from the lodge. 



* Blackfoot 



