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22 A HEED FOUND. 



on the one hand to risk our being winded by the deer, 

 and to await their retiring by their accustomed route, 

 or to have the wind in our favour, and run, as Korie 

 assured us, a very great chance of seeing no deer at 

 all. The only other possible course was to stalk them 

 while in the corrie. This, however, we shortly saw to 

 be impracticable ; for as it became lighter, and we 

 gradually began to distinguish moving objects, we 

 discovered several deer feeding about the shores of the 

 loch, but in so exposed a position that we were sure 

 we could never near them unperceived; and after a 

 time we saw that they were slowly making towards 

 Bealloch Mohr. Donald declared we could do nothing 

 with them to-day. Rorie, the shepherd, was for going 

 at once to the Big pass, in spite of the wind, and there 

 running our chance, in which view Walter and I coin- 

 cided. Numbers, therefore, carried the day, and it 

 was decided that we should do so ; adopting, however, 

 a suggestion of Donald's, that Rorie should go down 

 into the corrie and show himself, so as to drive the 

 herd, if possible, through our pass. Rorie therefore 

 hurried off in one direction and we in another. A few 

 minutes' climbing brought us to our position, behind a 

 mass of rocks which had fallen from some cliffs above, 

 and tying in the very centre of the pass, from whence 

 we had a view straight down into the corrie. Here, 

 carefully ensconced, we quietly awaited the event. We 

 had not, however, watched long, when we saw Rorie 

 coming towards the corrie, but on the further side of 

 it, directly in the track leading to the other pass, so 

 that the deer must take our pass or face him. In a 

 few moments, Donald said, he would have reached a 

 very narrow rent in the rocks, where he could show 

 himself to the whole herd, and effectually stop their 



