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all times alike. The roe is out of season the 

 greater part of the year. Roes are sometimes in 

 pride of grease, and when shot in this state are 

 superior venison to either red or fallow deer. 



I am fully aware that most sportsmen and 

 housekeepers will meet this assertion with a 

 shake of the head, but I am prepared to prove 

 that every season I rented Glenfalloch I shot 

 several roe-deer as fat as good mutton; and in 

 January 1861, the first year of my lease, my son 

 and I killed three bucks within a few days whose 

 kidneys were loaded with fat. Several people 

 came on purpose to satisfy their curiosity as to 

 the condition of these bucks, and all agreed that 

 if they were not " in pride of grease," no deer ever 

 could be. 



Some people insist upon larding roe -deer 

 venison with beef or mutton fat, while others 

 assert that the only way to make roe-flesh toler- 

 able is to stew it. When a roe is out of condition, 

 stewing and larding may disguise it as food, just 

 as the French cook, by the help of condiments, 

 made his master eat his old slippers ; but people 

 who would so treat a roe haunch in prime order 

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