noon
Once fairly started , however , I began , as was natural , to enjoy the tramp over the moors . We intended to send back for any game we might shoot , so only one old gillie accompanied me . I carried out the plans we had made the night before , going the way we had intended to go . It was deer I was after , and as luck would have it I had some splendid sport , and had begun to enter into it thoroughly before we halted to refresh ourselves at noon . After a long rest we set off again up a wooded glen . The keeper had noticed a herd of deer only the day before feeding at the other side , and it seemed more than probable that we should get a shot when we reached the brow of the hill , or we might perhaps meet some of them coming down the glen to drink . The afternoon was waning then , and we had turned our faces homeward .