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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.
*The Spine-tailed Swift[40]
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
*The Golden Eagle[64]
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
Where the Golden Eagle reigns[68]
From a Photograph by Frank Wallace.
*Preparing for Battle[76]
By Frank Wallace.
*“Take the fifth, he’s the best”[80]
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
In the Forest of Fannich[82]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
“He had the advantage of some inches over my little grandson, who was nearly five years old”[90]
From a Photograph by Mrs. Noel Wills.
*Sligachan, Isle of Skye[96]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
“Lying on a ridge we spied some deer”[98]
From a Photograph by the Author.
The Five Sisters of Kintail[104]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
Old Angus nearing Home[110]
By V. R. Balfour-Browne.
The Sanctuary, Kinlochewe Forest[124]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
“The trusty allies of our fathers on the hill”[128]
By Philip Stretton.
“I was spying for some time”[134]
From a Photograph by the Author.
*The Applecross Hills, and a Highland Fishing Village[142]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
Death of the Mallard[148]
By J. Wolf.
Among the Western Islands[166]
From a Photograph by Miss Diana Darling.
*Where Strome Castle looks over the Sea to Skye[168]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
*“The big stag is still there”[176]
By Frank Wallace.
*An Autumn Day, Loch Carron—looking West[184]
By Mrs. Schroder of Attadale.
Sunset on the Shores of Loch Carron[192]
From a Photograph by Miss Alexandra Fraser.
*On the Edge of the Deer Forest[200]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
In Achnashellach Forest[204]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
*Evening Glow, Poolewe, Ross-shire[212]
By Finlay Mackinnon.
*“The morning cometh”[218]
By Finlay Mackinnon.

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