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this the trout-fishing, and sometimes salmon- 

 fishing, and there is a complete catalogue of 

 sport. 



Yet with all this chasing, sound of horn 

 and sound of gun, it is curious to observe 

 that the birds usually found near homesteads 

 are much less timid than is the case in other 

 counties. The chaffinch, for instance, will 

 perch at the very elbow of the trout-fisher; 

 the tame pigeons in the village street are 

 tame indeed, since it is difficult to avoid 

 driving over them, and there is a manifest 

 absence of aimless brutality, such brutality 

 as compels owners of trout streams near large 

 cities to cover the water over with hurdles 

 from bank to bank, lest the fish in spawning 

 time be destroyed by stones. There is a total 

 absence of ruffianism of this kind. 



Something else, too, besides the red deer 

 has survived, and that is courtesy. Go wher- 

 ever you will in red deer country you will be 



