wild timid herd some part of the forest is selected a deer to which the deer are to be driven a great number of hill men and who thoroughly understand what they are about ore then sent to the farthest extremity to bring all the deer they can collect to this spot the passes of course being well blown are occupied by the with their the drivers sometimes and sometimes giving their wind gradually contract their circle the deer are huddled together and finding the only clear ground in the direction of the slowly and cautiously take their doomed way there is often great difficulty in driving them as they are always obliged to go with the wind which their natural instinct of self preservation makes them very unwilling to do and if they possibly can they always face it the implements of the deer are his rifle his and his hounds of these latter mr says that lord has a very superior they are for the most part a breed between the and but some are between the and the former are reckoned the best his s sets great store by them and tells you that when choosing a cold that is an in company with they are so knowing that should give them the slip at a bum or mountain stream and run down it they stop their pursuit of the recover his track and hold him at bay all night should no one com to their relief that no beer inferior animal should attend the deer may be inferred from the � that a with his fore leg broken will often beat the a very singular result of the hind leg of a being broken is that in running he is almost certain to the other whether from the additional weight thrown upon it or some other cause seems not to be known red deer are as cunning as and as game in illustration of their cunning they have been observed to keep a dog at bay till he exhausted himself with barking and then waiting till he had his fill of water they bolted away refreshed and rested and soon left their behind it should be borne in mind that deer are powerless in the water the all important agent however of such as have the good fortune to take their pleasure among the in pursuit of the good deer is the rifle this description of piece if it may be so called or more properly sporting piece has like everything in undergone great improvement within the last twenty years it is now frequently two though it has been urged against this plan that the extreme impulse given to a ball by a whole turn in the of the barrel occasions a sacrifice of and consequently of range the by this mode of is made to two or three times as often as under the principle is foimd to be quite sufficient for projecting the plain ball with deer accuracy and effect with the common sort of rifle the best size for red deer shooting will be that which carries an ball the length of the barrel should be from two feet four to two feet six inches thb red desk talking the red deer is also known as the and the the height of the british is somewhere about four feet and he arrives at great weight in some in the duke of quarters it is asserted that have been shot which weighed upwards of thirty stone at we are told they have reached thirty four stone while the of the present is said to have killed one which alter the ofi d was removed weighed thirty stone the royal is the of the wild there was a tame one once kept at a shooting lodge of lord s which attacked all who came near it except the and at last was removed to the park at he became so savage and expert with his that mr was informed he had killed two horses and that no one dared to pass his haunt unless he knew them the red deer is fond of water to which he has recourse as well for pleasure as for protection when pressed by hounds we passed during the day writes a several forest in full use � that is moss holes where the plunge up to the neck and roll about to cool themselves in summer and autumn when they come out again black as pitch they look like the evil of the mountain in former times used to fasten with the points upwards in these places and when the threw himself into the hole he became the full grown both male and female during the summer season have back and of a brown with a row of pale yellow spots on the sides and a black streak along the in the winter these parts assume a grey brown the quarters and tail only remaining a pale the head neck belly and legs are of a grey brown tint a broad brown streak passing down the forehead and nose as the age of the animal its colours become darker and most particularly the male this description is intended only to apply to the family of european as a race those of the british islands are distinguished by that peculiar tint which has obtained for them the title of red deer the is known from the hind by his horns by a beard of hair under the throat and by in the upper jaw the young of both sexes are called the male to three years old is a at four a at five a and afterwards in the royal he is entitled a royal the which the growth of the horns appear at about six months in the shape of two covered with a hairy coat in the second year the horns come forth but generally straight and single 