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breed, and turnips and wheat were sown on 

 purpose for the deer. 



If seven or eight deer were killed in a 

 season it was as much as was expected 

 once eleven were killed, and it was thought 

 that such a number would never be reached 

 again. But in the season of 1881-82 no 

 less than one hundred and one deer were 

 killed ; the slot of the hundredth deer is 

 mounted in silver, and preserved at the 

 huntsman's house. He reckons that there 

 are fifty stags in the district, and some two 

 hundred and fifty deer of all sizes. But 

 besides these, there must be many more 

 out-lying in the broad tract of country they 

 now roam over. Eighty have been seen in 

 one herd ; eighty at once crossing a road. 

 Twenty- six stags have been counted together. 

 Four hundred years ago, in the language of 

 the chase, twenty was a little herd, sixty a 

 middle herd, and eighty a great herd, so that 



