RED DEER, 

 i. 



RED DEER LAND. 



THE wild red deer in the West of England 

 have so largely increased in numbers recently 

 as to occupy a very different and far more 

 important position in the fauna of the 

 country than used to be the case. Almost 

 every one has heard as a kind of tradition 

 that the red deer which used to roam in the 

 forests all over England still remained wild 

 in a corner of Somerset. The circumstance 

 is often alluded to in books and conversa- 

 tion as an interesting story, not much more 

 real than the adventures of Leather-stocking 



