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regret as he leans on his rifle beside the 

 monarch of the glen ; and it seems to me, 

 a feminine (as distinguished from a female) 

 mind should feel the regret but not the 

 joy. And then the butcherly details. I 

 suppose the ''fair riflewoman " does not 

 assist in the gralloch ; but are there no 

 such things as the life-blood running from 

 the wounds caused both by bullet and 

 stalker's knife — the painful last contrac- 

 tions, the dying limbs, the glazing eye? 

 I think such sights are not for women ; 

 and to show that I am not alone in my 

 opinion, I will quote one scene from 

 memory. It is nearly ten years ago, and 

 the Devon and Somerset Staghounds have 

 set up their stag in a small pond, tra- 

 versed by a flight of rails, at Barnsworthy 

 Farm, near Fairfield, on the Quantock 



