RED DEER. 



At Cloutsham occasionally they may be ob- 

 served lying among the heather opposite, 

 those deer that keep to the hill being less 

 regular in retiring to the woods than the rest. 

 A stag, too, sometimes comes out from his 

 harbour, and may be viewed under the oaks. 

 There are none visible to-day on this side 

 of the Ball, so I walk round the mount, 

 passing a very large mountain-ash in flower ; 

 a branch has been broken from it, but it is 

 still a fine tree. The mountain-ash grows 

 freely on the hillsides wherever a tree can 

 take root. A sound which I thought I 

 heard just now rises and becomes distinctly 

 audible; it is the rush of swift water, and 

 comes up through the oaks from the hollow 

 of the giant fosse. The name of the stream 

 is Horner Water, flowing by Horner Wood 

 along the bottom of the deep trench. A 

 wind draws across the summit of the Ball, 

 bending the brake stems and stirring the 



