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those primarily interested in the maintenance of deer 

 forests. As regards the first it will be admitted that 

 many a cause far more important than this has, not 

 without opposition far more bitter than any that I 

 have encountered, been brought to a triumphant 

 issue. 



As regards the other, I have only to say that, if I 

 have done any service to the owners and lessees of 

 deer forests, the recognition which I should like best 

 is that they should give careful consideration to the sug- 

 gestions thrown out in a former part of this chapter ; 

 that they should endeavour to conduct their own 

 sport with as little inconvenience as possible to their 

 neighbours ; and that they should try to secure not 

 only amicable relations, but friendly intercourse and 

 hearty co-operation between all the different classes 

 which compose the population of the Highlands. 



If, as I believe, the above may prove to be one 

 result of these imperfect chapters on deer-stalking, it 

 will add very largely to the pleasure which I have 

 derived from writing these pages on the subject of the 

 sport I love so well 



