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up the opposite side of the corrie. We lunched 

 in glorious sunshine on a grassy slope about half a 

 mile from the summit of Cam Eige, and then 

 proceeded along the ridge, and soon found another 

 large lot of stags in the corrie on our right, about 

 1,000 feet below the summit. There was still a 

 good deal of mist about, mostly below us now, and 

 Finlayson thought we could get over the summit 

 and round to the pass beyond it, up which the 

 stags were sure to pass if he left the boy who was 

 with us to move them. But, alas ! the best laid 

 plans " gang aft agley," for in getting to the pass 

 we went right over the top instead of going a 

 bit round and beyond it cut it too fine, in fact, to 

 save our old legs and the deer must have got our 

 wind in spite of being 1,000 feet below us, for 

 they were already on the move when the boy 

 began to show himself, and passed out of the 

 corrie between us and the boy over the ridge we 

 had crossed half an hour before ! Cruel luck ! 

 and I thought I was going to have the time of 

 my life, and at all events the chance of a right 

 and left ! There were several goodish beasts in 

 the herd, but very few of them clean, and none 

 of them as good as the fine fellow I got three days 

 later; so though it seemed all dust and ashes, it 

 was all for the best in a very beautiful world of 

 glorious sunshine and mountain tops and mossy 

 corries. Naturally Finlayson and I were much 

 cast down at the slings and arrows of outrageous 



