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and I let him have it. Thud went the bullet, 

 and up he reared and danced round for a second 

 or two and then fell over, and his life's romance 

 was at an end. Needless to say the beasts we were 

 originally after were disturbed by the shot, and 

 we never saw them again; but our prize was quite 

 worth having a nice 7-pointer with rough black 

 horns and a fair spread, and his weight was 

 14 stone 8 pounds. Of course, he had to be left 

 out all night, as Sandy was asvay home with our 

 morning's bag; but he was none the worse 

 for that, and we were all as pleased as Punch 

 at once more bringing off No. 2 after so many 

 failures. 



As it was only 3 o'clock, we thought we would 

 have a look into Glengowrie and see if we could 

 equal our record of the immortal 4th of October, 

 1917, and, sure enough, we might have if I had 

 been more clever, as when we had climbed to the 

 tops overlooking Glengowrie we saw some deer 

 coming in from Erchless, and amongst them quite 

 a good stag. They were coming in at a good pace, 

 and we had to creep and crawl as fast as we could 

 200 or 300 yards so as to try and cut them off. 

 They came on to about 150 yards from us, and 

 then they seemed a bit undecided whether to come 

 on or to return to Erchless, and I had rather a 

 hurried shot with a very indifferent rest. How- 

 ever, I hit him all right, as he reared up and seemed 

 very groggy for a moment or two; but, alas ! he 



