Excerpt from Stalking Reminiscences: 1914-1920 Four years ago it was my fate, not to cap tivate a widow, but to have the right to kill five stags in Farley Forest, in addition to the grouse Shooting thereon - curious to relate, the former did not appeal to me one little bit, and I only took it because the grouse-shooting was unattain able without it. Little did I think I should so soon become the devotee I have become - but there, it is always the unexpected that happens, and had it not been for those five stags the world would have missed this forest idyll. It must have been the middle of September when my keeper Roy suggested to me that it was a pity to have five stags and not have a try for them; and as my Lady of Balblair agreed with him, I meekly acquiesced, and it was arranged to drive Farley Wood with four beaters. My old friend Merton Barker and I were posted in the various ambushes with which Farley abounds. I was accompanied by Susan of the many names and the wondrous kilts, and She has been beside. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.