120 RED DEER. 



stags can reach high and clear boughs far- 

 ther up a tree than would be supposed. 

 They swallow the apples without biting 

 them, just take them from the branch and 

 swallow at once. Now and then when a 

 stag is killed and paunched, quantities of 

 apples drop out and roll about the ground, 

 the peel not so much as cracked ; the poorer 

 boys think nothing of eating these as they 

 find them fresh from the deer, without so 

 much as washing the apples, and what they 

 cannot eat they pocket for future enjoy- 

 ment. These are the principal things the 

 deer feed on in the cultivated fields. They 

 go far down into the valleys and plains 

 for the wheat. When the damage they do 

 is enumerated it is evident at once that 

 stag-hunting is a sport of the most fasci- 

 nating character, or such losses would not 

 be endured for a month. 



On the moors the deer eat the fresh 



