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He weighed 13 stone 11 pounds, but was very 

 much run and would have weighed at least 2 stone 

 heavier a month earlier ; his horns were beautifully 

 dark and 30J inches long, so his skull was worth 

 keeping, and it now adorns my study walls vis-a-vis 

 to the glorious 7-pointer, and together they make 

 a bonny pair to console me for the slings and 

 arrows of outrageous fortune. 



And now my tale is told, and I must reminisce 

 no longer. I could go on like this for ever, like 

 Buttercup and Captain Corcoran, but it is best to 

 stop before one becomes tiresome; one is apt to 

 forget that, however interesting to oneself, one's 

 own doings and undoings are much less interesting 

 to others, and may be even grotesque or, worse 

 still, boring. And so let me wish all my readers, 

 if any, the best of luck when next they wrestle 

 with their heart's desire, be it in the forest, field, 

 or river and, as one of my stalker's said to me 

 after an awful miss when we were having a wee 

 droppie, " Here's to the death of the next stag." 



PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY 

 BILLINO AND SONS, LTD., QUILDFOBD AND ESTTEH 



