RED DEER. 



coat fits to the foxglove, the purple heather, 

 and later on to the orange and red of the 

 beech ; his easy bounding motion springs 

 from the elastic sward ; his limbs climb the 

 steep hill as if it were level ; his speed 

 covers the distances, and he goes from 

 place to place as the wind. He not only 

 lives in the wild, wild woods and moors 

 he grows out of them, as the oak grows 

 from the ground. The noble stag in his 

 pride of antler is lord and monarch of all 

 the creatures left to us in English forests 

 and on English hills. 



