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to him, and then Mr. B. found he could not 
safely let him go, as he saw at once the stag would 
turn on him if he got the least chance. He said 
to me after it was all over, ' That was a very near 
thing,' and so it certainly was." 
My friend Vincent Balfour- Browne has re- 
minded me that the latter instance of a wounded 
stag attacking a man is similar in some respects 
to Charles St. John's thrilling story of the Muckle 
Hart of Ben More in his Wild Sports and Natural 
History of the Highlands, in which case, to use 
Balfour- Browne's words, the stag was certainly 
keener to get into the man than to get away. 
