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shiver. By-and-by came distant cries, nearer and 

 nearer the shouts of the beaters. On looking 

 anxiously around, he saw suddenly appear several 

 great white spectres gazing at him, and silently 

 more and more stole up the misty hill, and, 

 surrounded by these unearthly-looking things, he 

 could stand it no longer, but, at the risk of his 

 neck, bolted down hill, and, by great chance, safely 

 reached the Lodge before dark ; the keepers, on 

 coming to his ambush, found he had left his gun 

 and gloves on the heather." 



We chuckled at the Major's story, and afterwards 

 mountain hares were subjects of many a joke; but 

 we had to go away long before they become 

 ghostly white. 



On the way homewards the Major pointed out 

 the distant woods of Dunesk. These woods we 

 were to shoot over in October, before the laird 

 went to Nice with his grand- daughter. The Major 

 said we should be charmed with the ancient house 

 and Jacobite relics therein. 



The walk home was by a longer but easier 

 route. From one point we saw the great loch, and 

 our river of promise debouching from it to run 

 its broken course to the sea. 



