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Blue- Book literature if they will consult the ponderous 

 volumes of evidence appended to the reports to 

 which I have drawn attention. 



It will not be thought unbecoming, before closing 

 this chapter, to point out in what respect the existing 

 system still works disadvantageous^ to classes of the 

 community which are not directly concerned in the 

 preservation or pursuit of deer, and to make a few 

 suggestions as to the way in which some causes of 

 difference and sources of injury may be removed or 

 mitigated. 



It may be said at once that tenants, whether 

 large or small, of grazings in the vicinity of forests are 

 in reality the only class who are affected. I must 

 decline to recognise tourists as having anything to say 

 in the matter. These have no permanent interest in 

 the Highlands. They come for fresh air and scenery, 

 of which they can get plenty without injury to anyone. 

 Ninety-nine out of every hundred of these persons 

 are quite satisfied to ascend mountains the most 

 beautiful and fascinating of which happen not to be 

 in deer forests, where they can do no harm. The 

 tourist who goes out of his way to spoil the enjoy- 

 ment of someone else because he thinks he has got 

 the right to do so must be a very surly sort of fellow. 

 Fortunately the specimen is rare. 



