112 RED DEER. 



and have been compared in this respect to 

 moles. One day a mole-hill appears sud- 

 denly in a field ; another is immediately 

 thrown up, a third, a fourth, whole rows 

 of mole-hills ; nor can trapping exterminate 

 them. After awhile the moles go on, and 

 desert the place. Deer used to lie a great 

 deal at Slowby, and do not now so much. 

 Haddon Hill is a favourite locality ; yet in the 

 spring of the present year [1884] numbers of 

 them had gone across to Hawkridge. They 

 go where they like and stop where they like. 

 The damage they do to crops is so exten- 

 sive that without the goodwill of the farmers 

 stag-hunting could not last a single season. 

 Nothing could demonstrate more thoroughly 

 the enthusiasm which hunting the red deer 

 inspires in those who follow it than the 

 fact that the farmers over such an immense 

 breadth of country should unanimously agree 

 to endure these losses. 



