Part 2

I. THE CHARM OF SPORT AMID THE HIGH HILLS 1

II. STALKING IN ITS MOST ENJOYABLE FORM 6

III. A GREAT FISH AND A GREATER FISHERMAN 12

IV. THE BIRDS OF FASTEST FLIGHT IN THE BRITISH ISLES 23

V. A GOOD DAY IN THE FOREST OF COIGNAFEARN 71

VI. A STALKER’S PERIL 81

VII. THE LUCK OF SALMON FISHING 85

VIII. A STORMY WEEK IN THE FOREST 97

IX. A SALMON LOCH IN SUTHERLAND 113

X. THE HOMING INSTINCTS OF WOUNDED DEER 123

XI. THE METHOD BY WHICH EAGLES AND HAWKS SECURE THEIR PREY 136

XII. INSTANCES OF WOUNDED STAGS ATTACKING STALKERS 155

XIII. TRAPPED 165

XIV. THE LAST STALK OF THE SEASON 170

XV. THE LOCH PROBLEM 182

XVI. THE SURGEON OF THE DEER FOREST 197

XVII. THE SECRET OF THE HIGH HILLS 215

INDEX 221

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

* Those marked with an asterisk are in colour.

*September Snow, Loch Carron, Ross-shire. Frontispiece By Finlay Mackinnon.

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*“The joy of watching deer when they have no suspicion that they are being watched” 1 By V. R. Balfour-Browne.

Golden Days 4 By V. R. Balfour-Browne.

*“See! from the tops the mist is stealing” 6 By Finlay Mackinnon.

*“The salmon leaped twice straight up into the air” 16 By V. R. Balfour-Browne.

The Peregrine Falcon 26 By V. R. Balfour-Browne.

Winter Sunshine--Wild Geese at the Foot of the Applecross Hills 36 From a Photograph by The Lady Anne Murray of Loch Carron.