SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GREYHOUND, OR WOLF-DOG 687 



the track of a wounded stag, and that, too, in most 

 unfavourable, rainy weather, for three successive 

 days, at the end of which time the stag was shot. 

 The present Glengarry wrote me an account of it, 

 in which he mentions, *'he," the stag, ''was wounded 

 just within nine miles of Invergarry-house, and was 

 traced that night to the estate of Glenmoriston. At 

 dusk in the evening the deer-stalkers placed a stone 

 on each side of the last fresh print of his hoof, and 

 another over it ; and this they did each night 

 following. On the succeeding morning they removed 

 the upper stone, when the dog recovered the scent, 

 and the stag was that day traced over a great part 

 of Glenmoriston's grounds. On the third day he 

 was re-traced to the lands of Glengarry, and there 

 shot." 



Glengarry also furnished me with the following 

 gallant achievement of one of his dogs. He says, 

 " My present dog, Comhstri, to great courage unites 

 the quality of a gentle disposition, with much fidelity 

 and attachment. Though not so large as some of his 

 kindred, he is nevertheless as high-spirited and deter- 

 mined as any of his race, which the following cir- 

 cumstance will testify : — 



'' About three years ago, a deer from the wood of 

 Derrygarbh, whose previous wounds had been healed, 

 came out of Glengarry's pass, who wounded it in the 

 body with a rifle bullet. The deerhounds were im- 

 mediately laid on the blood-track. The stag was 

 started in the course of a few minutes ; the dogs were 

 instantly slipped, and the fine animal ran to bay in a 

 deep pool of water, below a cascade, on the Garyquulach 

 stream. Comhstri immediately plunged in and seized 

 the stag by the throat, both went under water, sur- 

 rounded with the white foam, slightly tinged with the 

 deer's blood. The dog soon came to the surface to 



