78 RED DEER. 



there hide them ; and the little creatures 

 lie through the heat of the summer day 

 among it. Fawn has a pleasanter sound 

 than calf, but by all the rules of venery, 

 ancient and modern, the young of the fallow 

 deer are fawns, those of the tall red deer 

 are called calves. Upon the moors the 

 ferns grow principally towards coombes and 

 covers, more so than among the heather ; 

 and these coombes, with water and shade, 

 are the favourite haunts of the deer. 



Every wall they climb over is covered with 

 fern in summer. These walls are made of 

 loose flat stones, between the joints of which 

 the pennywort leaves come forth and send 

 up a stalk to bear the flowers the leaves 

 are round like green pennies. Though less 

 conspicuous the pennyworts are almost as 

 numerous as the ferns, and the two are often 

 crushed under the deer's hoofs, or slot. It 

 is the hinds who climb the walls ; the stags 



