73 DEER-STALKING. 



been till that moment clean forgotten. Tearing it open 

 again hurrah ! hurrah ! Craigmillar first and had 

 not one of the safest and most courteous of book-makers 

 laid me a thousand to one hundred and fifty against 

 him ! This was indeed a red-letter day my first stag 

 had "come off!" my plunge had come off! Reader, 

 what more can I say ? good spirits are catching, and 

 long and loud the laughter rose in the smoking-room 

 that night. 



