RED DEER LAND. It 



former aspect. Meanwhile, the new growth 

 of grass has afforded pasture to the sheep 

 and ponies, and to the deer. 



Here and there small tufts of cotton on 

 stalks of grass appear waving in the breeze, 

 white dots above the dark heath. This 

 cotton-grass shows a boggy soil, and warns 

 the rider not to pass there lest his horse 

 sinks to the knee. Even in the hottest 

 summer months many places on the moors 

 which, it must be remembered, are hill- 

 tops retain water, and will let the unwary- 

 sink. In winter these places are multiplied 

 tenfold, and it then needs a practised eye 

 to find a firm path between them. The turf 

 is much cut away for use as fuel ; it is 

 stacked, roots outwards, in heaps like hay- 

 cocks. This fuel has this advantage, that 

 the ashes have an agricultural value for 

 drilling in with turnips. But the holes 

 where it is removed become full of water, 



