. Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions. -—the beauty thatwe had admired yesterday evening. He was a magnificentanimal, and I sat down and scratched a little sketch ofhim on a bit of paper that Macdonald had in his pocket,which I put on a stone—while Albert and Vicky, with. the others, built a little cairn to mark the spot. Weheard, after I had finished my little scrawl, and thecarriage had j
. Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions. -—the beauty thatwe had admired yesterday evening. He was a magnificentanimal, and I sat down and scratched a little sketch ofhim on a bit of paper that Macdonald had in his pocket,which I put on a stone—while Albert and Vicky, with. the others, built a little cairn to mark the spot. Weheard, after I had finished my little scrawl, and thecarriage had joined us, that another stag had been seennear the road; and we had not gone as far as the Irons, * before we saw one below the road, looking sohandsome. Albert jumped out and fired—the animalfell, but rose again, and went on a little way, and Albert * These Irons are the levers of an old saw-mill which waspulled down, and they were left there to be sold—between thirtyand forty years ago—and have remained there ever since, not beingconsidered worth selling, on account of the immense trouble oftransporting them. ( 98 ) followed. Very shortly after, however, we heard a cry,and ran down and found Grant and Donald Stewartpulling up a stag with a very pretty head. Albert hadgone on, Grant went after him, and I and Vicky remainedwith Donald Stewart, the stag, and the dogs. I sat downto sketch, and poor Vicky, unfortunately, seated herselfon a wasps nest, and was much
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