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go up with Archie and look after him while I 

 stay and grallach ' Clubfoot/ or Archie can go alone, 

 for there'll be no need for the rifle." 



I decide, however, to accompany Archie ; and after 

 a long climb we find, as Donald had predicted, my 

 first stag dead as a stone, about fifty or sixty yards 

 from the spot where I shot at him. He was a very 

 fine beast, fully as heavy as " Clubfoot," if not 

 heavier, as the latter, from age, had been "going 

 back" for some years. He likewise had a royal 

 head, but not of the same substance or width as 

 " Clubfoot's," a rather narrow and upright head, never 

 very picturesque, but he was in splendid condition. 

 " Indeed it is not every gentleman coming to 

 Scotland," suddenly discourses Archie in a mor- 

 alising tone as he surveys him, while turning up his 

 sleeves for the grallach, " that will kill two such 

 stags as these in one day." I modestly assent to 

 this, and attribute my success to extraordinary luck, 

 secretly, in the bottom of my heart, fishing for a 

 compliment, which, however, don't come, whether 



