This story was written for a boy called Fraser Stuart. We met him with his grandparents in the summer of 2012 (?) at a caravan site in Braemar.

When he rode his bike around the caravan site he would usually stop outside or ‘van an wait until I went out for a chat. He told me of the previous year when he had been at the Braemar site and it had been visited by “a monster stag which ran at people”.

Fraser Stuart and I agreed that this would make a great story. After a discussion with his grandparents he agreed names for the stag and the title.

It was July and the weather was mixed. The day before we left the wind got up and howled all night long. As we breakfasted the next morning we saw several fellow campers taking photographs of a group of stags who were sheltering from the wind in a copse of fir trees which bounded the site. Just beyond the trees was a fast flowing river which hurtled past to join the main river about a mile away.

If you enjoy this one you might like “The Fox of Bannockburn”.

This was my first effort at publishing a printed booklet. Susan at Purple Edge Graphics did most of the work and I thank her for her patience and skill. It was the start of a friendship which continues to this day.