e*ftu:se. Sixty years ago the stalk was in d u c te d very much as, it & to-day, Bat i f a shot
failed, a deerhound was slipped, and generallgfrought the unin|wed quarry to b ly fin some
burn sir loch, where he fm |Mf an end to w i f e a rifle A n 'd® it was down to a m u B la te r
period.
A stalker in lllajk Mount | | d me o f a typical in ? f| |§h if e e ig ip a f t . some
l i p ' years ago. Fox .Made and Sir EdWin, Landseer were the fiiiè rifles (they frequently
Stalkpiin pairs at that timé), and on the side olClashven, Pbt0 ‘R o b e r# p the head forester,
brought them within i t lS p ia s o f two exceptionally fine Mauie fired and M U R a s
didl-als^Sir. Edwin ,as the stags moved aw a y; then, on a signal p a in Robertson, Peter
M'Coll, the gillie, slipped the. hounds— the two best eydri'Owned É g the late Marqu iiip l
Breadalbane, and whose portraits are still preserved in thé famous p icp te -o f“ T he Deer Drive,”
-and away they went in dhlotpursuit o f the deer. An eri.d-on chaYinow ensued, the line
taken being due east down the great glen towards Loch Dochart, and at last the stalkers
were brought to a 'standstill, being fairly exhausted J p th in||idnfcand lj||b. A t this
ihoment, however, four dark sj^ts like small rocks standing B t .at the point difra little
promontory in the lake attracted their iftention, and, on drawing hearer, they' saw, tB h e i r