WAYS OF RED DEER. 



grass that springs after tracts are burned, 

 the tops of the heather, and the grass that 

 grows between the young firs in planta- 

 tions. They will eat the leaves of haw- 

 thorn and beech, and in the covers are said 

 to sometimes take oak leaves. Bramble 

 leaves they feed on both in summer and 

 winter, and are very fond of ivy, grazing on 

 quantities of the ivy growing along the 

 ground in the woods. Ivy will attract them 

 to a cover, and they grow fat on it. But 

 above all things they love acorns, and devour 

 immense quantities of them as they fall from 

 the trees. It is at the acorn time that the 

 stags are fattest ; if the crop of acorns hap- 

 pens to be plentiful they have a perfect feast. 

 Sprays of ash tempt them, the fresh leaf on 

 the young shoots that start up after the old 

 wood has been cut; they eat it off as level 

 as if cut with a bill-hook, stags especially. 

 The calves frisk and play about their mothers 



