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III. 



DEER IN SUMMER. 



A PATH leads along the edge of a round 

 green hill standing by itself in the midst 

 of the dark heather -covered moors which 

 overlook it. In shape it resembles a skull- 

 cap of green velvet imitated in sward, or it 

 might be a great tennis-ball cut in two. 

 This is Cloutsham Ball, and it looks like a 

 green ball among the surrounding heather, 

 contrasting in its colour and in its form 

 with the moors. They undulate in long 

 swelling contours ; the Ball is globular. So 

 round and smooth is the outline, that had it 

 been carved with the chisel it could hardly 

 have been more regular. From a distance 

 it appears much smaller than it is, a mere 



