170 RED DEER. 



are hunted at two different seasons, and that 

 the stags in the hind season do but just 

 move out of the way of the pack, while in 

 the stag season the hinds step aside and let 

 the chase go by without sign of alarm. 



Once now and then it happens that a 

 stag hard pressed leaps from the rocks into 

 the sea. Pursued and hopeless of escape, 

 when he finds that speed cannot distance 

 the hounds, he returns circling towards the 

 crags which overhang the Channel. The 

 paths are narrow, the precipices deep, and 

 the walls of rock steep, so that if he chances 

 to follow a path among them he cannot 

 choose but go forwards ; the hounds behind 

 bar retreat. There is no turning back, and, 

 wild and desperate in his haste, he leaps 

 from the edge of the chasm, or perhaps is 

 in space before he knows where he is 

 going. 



The nearest hound often follows, and once 



