RED DEER. 



which stays all the summer ; they are, in 

 fact, so many bogs, which horsemen should 

 carefully avoid. Wild ducks are fond of 

 these shallow ponds, for such they are 

 ponds thickly covered by green aquatic 

 growths. On the higher slopes, where the 

 heather has not been burned, it rises high, 

 thick, and difficult to force a way through, 

 so that the wayfarer must follow the paths 

 made by the deer. Over these moors sheep, 

 some bullocks, and ponies almost as wild 

 as the deer, wander freely. Such is the 

 North Forest, the centre of Red Deer 

 Land the home from which the red 

 deer spread abroad. Though called the 

 North Forest, it is bare of trees (except 

 in the coombes) ; it is an open expanse of 

 heather. 



But the deer are no longer limited to the 

 moors they roam over a region of which 

 Exmoor forms only a corner. With a pencil 



