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stalking, though, doubtless, they are all very well for 

 tiger-shooting and other dangerous animals ; unfor- 

 tunately, however, my letter was not inserted. Old 

 McLeay from time to time reminds me of the occur- 

 rence, saying, ' I well remember the blood-spout 

 coming out of the stag you shot, sir ; and with my 

 forty - seven years' experience as a stalker I can 

 honestly say I never saw anything so extraordinary. 

 I recollect calling my son to see the fountain, and that 

 Dugald with the tracker was too late to see it.' 

 (Dugald and Donald McLeay are the twin sons of the 

 celebrated old stalker, and have started in business as 

 gun-agents and head-stuffers at Dingwall, and are, I 

 am glad to say, doing well, for their many years' 

 practical experience with stalkers has afforded them 

 the opportunity of knowing exactly how a head should 

 be stuffed, so as to appear most natural. I trust that 

 this brief reference may be the means of adding to 

 their customers. They are both good rifle-shots ; 

 certainly the best in the Ullapool Volunteers. 



We stalked two other stags that day in the South 

 Glen, and would have secured a fourth, had not a 

 witch of a hind spoiled our stalk. She got up on the 

 sky-line between us and the corrie in which the stag 

 we were stalking was in, and we had to lie there for 

 three hours and a half, within twenty yards of her, 

 while she watched the flocks of sheep being driven 

 along the road below — a road which encircled us for 

 some four miles ; and it took hours for the sheep and 

 dogs to get out of sight of her, and the light was 

 beginning to fail ; so while old Donald McLeay was 

 having a snooze, much to his horror, I let fly at her. 

 He exclaimed, ' Why, man, you have killed a hind ; I 



