176 WILD SPORTS OF THE HIGHLANDS. [CHAP. XXI. 
were at evening prayer when we arrived: we did not interrupt 
them, but afterwards the wife prepared us a capital supper of 
eggs and fresh trout, which we devoured with vast relish before 
the bright peat-fire, our wet clothes steaming all the time like a 
boiler. Such was the death of my first stag. 
