,54 DEER -STALKING. 



of the shooting-lodges which attacked every one but the 

 foresters, and at last was removed to the park at Tay- 

 mouth. This fellow became so savage and expert with 

 his antlers, that he killed, I have been told, two horses, 

 and no one dared to pass his haunt unless he knew 

 them, 



The finest red-deer head I ever saw was that of a park- 

 deer killed last autumn by a stab in the flank from 

 another in the Duke of Atholl's park at Blair. Of course 

 high feeding was the cause of his immense horns. Such a 

 head is never met with in a wild state. I have now a five- 

 year-old in my brother's park at Rossdhu, and mean to 

 try whether good keep will have' the like effect upon his 

 antlers. He is very savage : no one dares to go near him 

 without a dog. The Atholl deer was fourteen years old. 



