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after having- been saved from the hounds ; others 

 again lost and drowned at sea. Thus one hundred 

 and one deer in all were taken out of the country in 

 one way or another in the course of the season ; a 

 number which frightened many stag-hunters a good 

 deal, and led to much indignant outcry that the new 

 master was killing the deer unfairly, and slaughtering 

 them wholesale, young and old indiscriminately. Of 

 course a certain number of young deer were killed, and 

 inevitably so. Even in the old days calves and year- 

 lings, with a much smaller herd of deer, were occasion- 

 ally sacrificed, and in Mr. Bisset's last season, as we 

 have seen, no fewer than seventeen innocents perished. 

 Mr. Bisset meanwhile himself displayed no surprise 

 when his successor sent him the slot of the hundred 

 and first deer, and ventured to predict that the herd 

 would be found almost, if not quite, as numerous in 

 the next year. 



The sport of 1882 was not so good as that of 1881, 

 but still by no means bad. The season lasted till the 

 5th of April, 1883, ninety-three hunting days, wherein 

 eighty-seven deer were killed and six taken and saved. 

 The best of the sport was with the hinds, though the 

 winter was the rainiest ever known in that very rainy 

 country. 



