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own words. This he did, and the account he 
sent me was as follows : 
" I enclose here a long detail about the only 
time I happened to see wounded stags attacking. 
You will find it a long story, but it so impressed 
itself on my mind I could not help giving the 
movements of each day in full. Twice in my 
experience of twenty - four years I have seen 
a w^ounded stag attacking a man. The first 
happened on September 25, 1902, when I was 
stalking with Mr. A. In our start in the morning 
to the first spying place we usually on the way 
moved some hinds, but did not trouble about this, 
as seldom stags were seen so low down till October 
and stormy weather came. But this morning, 
when near the spying place, what was my surprise 
to see to our right lying on a flat, mossy bank a 
fine big stag with ten points. He did not see 
us, and we were preparing to stalk him when 
some of the hinds we moved passed a little beyond 
and carried him away, so we sat down and kept 
our glasses on them for a long distance till they 
settled and began to feed, but the stag kept on 
walking slowly and climbing till he went out of 
sight over the ridge beyond. We had to make a 
long detour to get past the hinds, and when we 
