STALKING IN A HURRICANE 29 



Eraser and I dashed after him in the pelting storm, 

 and when we got to where he had disappeared 

 we saw him about 150 yards below, very sick and 

 standing with his legs wide apart and looking as 

 though he was going to drop. However, when we 

 got close up to him he again tried to stagger off; 

 but a second bullet put an end to his troubles, 

 and there we were with another journey for 

 Mackintosh and the pony, soaked to the skin, but 

 very happy. He was a good beast, 15 stone 5 

 pounds, a 9-pointer, not a very good head, an old 

 stag going back. 



The next day, the llth, Merton Barker got a 

 nice 7-pointer weighing 14 stone 8 pounds, after a 

 great stalk on the middle heights of Erchless, 

 called the Hare Mountain. He and Eraser had a 

 great crawl of about 500 yards over very bare 

 ground, which must have been desperately ex- 

 citing, but equally fatiguing however, just the 

 crawl to suit " poor old " Merton. 



On the 12th we drove Farley Wood, and I 

 got a nice rough 8-pointer at the Northern drive, 

 my second and last stag for the season on Farley. 

 Fancy only three stags in the season on Farley ! 

 Terrible ! Certainly, I ought to have had three or 

 four more, but for vile shooting, and Merton ought 

 to have had another, but that would only make 

 about half my number, so if it hadn't been for 

 Erchless it would have been a sad season indeed. 



