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year's bullet had broken it, but now nicely healed 
up, and it looked as though both legs were 
exactly the same length. I could not say if he 
had a limp, as he was standing all the time till 
we had our shot. I got this haunch for my 
own use and had it boiled and stripped of 
flesh, when I could see plainly how well it joined. 
The bone was jagged at both ends, and the 
longest points exactly touching, and the missing 
parts wxre filled up with tough hard flesh. I 
noticed a splinter on the outside which lay so 
neatly in place, and even to both ends. The stag 
weighed 15 st. 11 lb. He was in fair condition, 
but not up to the average ; he looked to me to be 
much heavier the year before, although that year 
we had much better average weights." 
Lieut. -General Crealock, in Deer Stalking in 
the Highlands of Scotland, relates a case of the 
same kind : 
" I remember," he says, " wounding a Royal 
Stag some years ago at Loch Luichart — I broke 
his fore leg at the shoulder. Having no dog with 
me I never succeeded in getting up to him to 
finish him before dark, and so lost him. The 
wound was not mortal — it had shattered the 
bone ; he recovered and lived for several years 
