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THE RED DEER. 
by William Barclay in a Latin treatise, '' 
thus rendered by Pennant : — 
“ In the year 1563, the Earl of Athol, “ 
prince, of the blood-royal, had with much troi'' 
ble and vast expense, a hunting match for 
entertainment of our most illustrious quee)>'' 
our people call this a royal hunting. T""! 
thousand highlanders, or wild Scotch, as y^’‘‘ 
call them here, were employed to drive to tl' | 
hunting ground all the deer from the woods 
hills of Athol, Badenoch, Marr, Murray, 
the counties about. As these highlanders 
a light dress, and are very swift of foot, tb^J 
went up and down so nimbly, that in less tli^’’ 
two months’ time they brought together 
thousand red deer, besides roes and fall^'* 
deer : the queen, the great men, and a nuiti^^^^ 
of others were in a glen when all these de*^' 
w^ere brought before them. The whole bodJ 
moved forward in something like battle-ord^*^' 
The story still strikes me, and ever will str' 
