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WILD DEER. 



MOSELY GlLSON, who lives on the Lowell Road, about half 

 a mile from the First Parish Meeting-house, tells me that in 

 the year 1894, late in the summer or early in the autumn, his 

 wife saw a wild deer on the easterly side of Gibbet Hill, near 

 his house ; and that a few days later his hired man saw one, 

 presumably the same deer, in the meadow opposite to his 

 house. 



Within a few years deer have been seen at different times 

 in the northern part of Middlesex County, and in the southern 

 part of New Hampshire, showing the good effect of the game 

 laws as applied to that beautiful creature. 



WILD DEER. 



DURING the year 1897 wild deer were seen in Dunstable 

 Tyngsboro and Chelmsford, and I have talked with various 

 persons who saw them. Since June 8, deer have been seen 

 in Groton on three different occasions. These repeated in- 

 stances of their appearance in the northern part of this Com- 

 monwealth in modern times show their natural increase, due, 

 doubtless, to the protection they receive from the State of 

 New Hampshire, whence they migrate over the boundary line, 

 and to the further protection here given. 



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On June 8, 1897, rather early in the morning, Wheeler 

 Wilson Ames, who lives in the Rocky Hill School District of 

 Groton, saw a deer feeding in the meadow in front of the 

 Shattuck homestead, a short distance southeasterly from 

 Martin's Pond. On being discovered the deer ran and dis- 

 appeared over the northern slope of Gibbet Hill, and soon 

 afterward was seen in the outskirts of the village heading for 

 the Four Corners below the soapstone quarry. 



