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CHAPTER V. 



Driving the Sanctuary — A lucky miss — i\nother day with Mr. 

 Winans — Going for a fall— When driving is superior to stalking — 

 Fight between an eagle and a fox — Stalking in Paat Forest in 1888 

 — Bad weather — Wire-fencing and wounded deer — An old, and 

 over-canny stag — John Mathewson — Fight between two eagles — 

 Eagles and deer — A cargo of venison — Bad heads at Morna and 

 Strathconnon — A right and left. 



I WAS once asked to join in a deer-drive, which, as 

 good luck would have it, turned out to be the best 

 ever known in the Strath-Farrar Forest. 



In the time of the late Lord Lovat, and also that of 

 his father, the Sanctuary, opposite the Braulen Lodge, 

 had never been disturbed. The gillies were never 

 allowed to go near it, unless a very good stag died 

 near the outside of it, when they were permitted to go 

 in and pull it out. When the late tenant, Mr. Winans, 

 took it, he invited me to join his party, which consisted 

 of ten rifles. One fine September morning, when the 

 wind was north-east, the very best quarter for us, I 

 drove up with him, starting at five o'clock from Phoenas 

 House, which was next to my own shooting, and 

 which Mr. Winans rented as a halfway-house, and 

 where he spent some part of the stalking season, as he 

 had not room at Braulen for his numerous guests. We 

 drove in a light buggy, which was well horsed, and, 

 after the American fashion, galloped all the way, 



