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so timid in some ways, and especially by 

 day, the deer are not easily alarmed from 

 food that pleases them. If a man gets out 

 of bed and drives them out of the orchard 

 their raids are generally made at night 

 they will very soon return after he has re- 

 tired. In fact, it is almost impossible to 

 keep them out of places to which they 

 have taken a fancy. 



There are some very large covers near 

 Porlock running along the coombes alto- 

 gether nine miles of oak woods. Anywhere 

 else but on Exmoor, where everything is 

 on a large scale, and distance is the most 

 marked feature, nine miles of woods would 

 be called a forest. On Exmoor a forest is 

 only a cover. In these great covers the 

 deer have taken up their residence, and have 

 so increased that at last the damage they 

 have done has led to efforts being made to 

 force them out. Besides the injury to the 



