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another shot on the way home. We soon spied a 
good stag with a number of hinds, and, after a long 
stalk, I got a good chance of taking a quick shot at 
a little over 100 yards and fired. The stag dis- 
appeared. Maclennan thought I had hit him, 
but I was very uncertain, and think I must have 
shot over him. A long and careful search on the 
ground, which was very broken, showed nothing. 
There was no sign of the stag, nor were there any 
marks of blood to be seen, and I felt satisfied that 
I must have missed him, though Maclennan and 
the gillie had thought otherwise. 
We again started to work our way back, and 
had not gone very far before Maclennan suddenly 
stopped and brought his glass to bear on the face 
of a hill about half a mile away. He then said 
there was a stag with a fine wide head lying down, 
and that we ought to be able to get close to him 
without difficulty, as the ground was very broken. 
I proceeded to stalk this stag, and got without 
great difficulty within about 180 yards of him, 
when I saw that he was up and looking very 
suspicious, and that I should have to take my 
shot as soon as I could. We quickly got the rifle 
out of the cover, and crawled to another hillock 
about 100 yards from where the stag was. Arrived 
