176 WILD SPORTS OF THE HIGHLANDS. [CIIAI>. xxi. 



were at evening prayer when we arrived : we did not interrupt 

 them, but afterwards the wife prepared us a capital supper of 

 eggs and fresh trout, which we devoured with vast relish before 

 the bright peat-fire, our wet clothes steaming all the time like a 

 boiler. Such was the death of my first stag. 



