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beautiful little deer. Not wishing to disturb them much last 

 winter, we had only one hunt, when I killed a very fine buck 

 with a splendid head, and my son a large doe, both in prime 

 order. In 1865, when beating for black-game, we stumbled 

 on a pair of roes which had acquired such confidence in this 

 forbearance as scarcely to heed the report of our guns. 



The rod-fishing of Bute is confined to a few moor-lochs of 

 moderate calibre ; there are no fishing-streams deserving the 

 name. 



