THE SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GREYHOUND. 
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when held on the leash, followed the track of a wounded 
stag, and that, too, in most unfavourable, rainy weather, 
for three successive days, at the end of which time the stag 
was shot. The present Glengarry wrote me an account of it, 
in which he mentions, “ he,” the stag, “ was wounded just 
within nine miles of Invergarry-house, and was traced 
that night to the estate of Glenmoriston. At dusk in the 
evening the deer-stalkers placed a stone on each side of the 
last fresh print of his hoof, and another over it; and this 
they did each night following. On the succeeding morning 
they removed the upper stone, when the dog recovered the 
scent, and the stag was that day traced over a great part of 
Glenmoriston’s grounds. On the third day he was re-traced 
to the lands of Glengarry, and there shot.” 
Glengarry also furnished me with the following gallant 
achievement of one of his dogs. He says, “ My present 
dog, Comhstri, to great courage unites the quality of a gentle 
disposition, with much fidelity and attachment. Though 
not so large as some of his kindred, he is nevertheless as 
high-spirited and determined as any of his race, which the 
following circumstance will testify :— 
« About three years ago, a deer from the wood of Derry- 
garbh, whose previous wounds had been healed, came out of 
Glengarry’s pass, who wounded it in the body with a rifle 
bullet. The deerhounds were immediately laid on the 
blood-track. The stag was started in the course of a few 
minutes; the dogs were instantly slipped, and the fine ani¬ 
mal ran to bay in a deep pool of water, below a cascade, on 
the Garyquulach stream. Comhstri immediately plunged 
in, and seized the stag by the throat, both went under water, 
surrounded with the white foam, slightly tinged with the 
deer’s blood. The dog soon came to the surface to recover 
his breath, and before the stag could do so, Comhstri dived, 
