72 RED DEER. 



large iron overshot wheel exposed at the 

 side of the building. Deer running down 

 the stream usually break from it as they 

 come to the hatch just above the mill-wheel, 

 and go round the mill, which blocks their 

 course along the brook. Once a hind closely 

 followed was so beset by the hounds that, 

 unable to quit the brook, she leaped from 

 the sluice on to the top of the revolving 

 wheel. The immense iron wheel carried 

 her over and threw her to the ground, dis- 

 abling her. She was immediately killed to 

 prevent suffering. Marks of the passage of 

 a traction-engine may be seen in the road 

 to the mill; it is used to draw loads to 

 and from the place, and comes to the edge 

 of the haunts of the deer the most modern 

 of machines beside the ancient chase. 



Returning to the Ball, the path up it over 

 the loose stones seems yet steeper than when 

 descending. On the summit it now goes 



