194 RED DEER. 



of the year that the horn does not sound, 

 or that hounds are not afoot after some game 

 or other in Red Deer Land ? There is hunt- 

 ing almost the whole year round ; the interval 

 is so short the staghounds have to be kept in 

 condition and fit for work from year's end to 

 year's end. 



In spring the otter-hounds are busy in 

 the rivers and streams. After staghounds are 

 past the strain and effort of stag- hunting they 

 are frequently sent to the pack of otter- 

 hounds. Besides this, there is fox-hunting 

 and hare-hunting, so that there is scarce a 

 moment the whole year through that game 

 is not being chased in the red deer country. 

 Then there is the black-game shooting on 

 the moors, the partridges on the corn-lands, 

 and the pheasants in the woods. Snipes 

 frequent the peaty places and ponds left by 

 the removal of the turf on the moors, and wild 

 ducks and golden plovers are shot. Add to 



