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CHAPTER II. 



Training for deer-stalking — Self-stalking — Advisability of owners 

 learning their ground — Invitation to Rhidoroch — Scenery around 

 Braemore — Prior Park, near Bath, compared to Braemore — Selfish- 

 ness of sportsmen — Improved shooting-boxes — Beauties of 

 Braemore — Down hill with a pair of screws — Start from Ullapool 

 — Donald McLeay — A day in the South Glen — A stalk — Remark- 

 able effect of explosive bullets — Donald and Dugald McLeay — ■ 

 How to deal with a female obstructionist — An eight-pointer — A 

 day in Knockamphle — William Sutherland — A stag — Size of Rhi- 

 doroch hinds — A bargain — Day-dreams — Vigilant and the witch 

 — A big fluke — Man v. stag — At the last time of asking — The 

 South Glen — A stalk and a kill — A bad day and a big stag — ■ 

 The wrong man in the wrong place — An imperial — -The homeward 

 drive — Mr. S. Piatt's forest — Leckmelin — Crofters — Wyvis, and 

 the late Mr. Horatio Ross — Glendoe Forest — A long way home — 

 Necessity for carrying a compass — Lost in the mist — Advantages 

 of a pocket aneroid— The fall of pride — ' Solus feci ' — Highland 

 poachers of olden time — The ruling passion — Millionaires and their 

 money — Former and present rents of deer-forests. 



In order to fully enjoy deer-stalking, it is absolutely 

 necessary that a man should have been trained up to 

 it. I have known owners of forests who have stalked 

 all their lives and who are all the same quite unable 

 to dispense with the assistance of a professional stalker. 

 If such men had been notorious for their prowess in 

 other sports, such as hunting, etc., there would be 

 some excuse for them, but those to whom I refer have 

 devoted their entire time and talents to stalking, or 

 what they term stalking, and surely any other kind of 



