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haunches of all our prime roes are simply roasted, 

 and I never saw any one partake of them who 

 did not say they were the most delicate and 

 delicious of all venison. My brother, who has 

 both red and fallow deer in perfection, decidedly 

 gives the palm to roe when in condition. 



From the Baron's other assertion, that " the 

 roe may be hunted at all times alike," I differ 

 more completely than about the quality of its 

 venison. The usual autumn announcements that 



" brought down a couple of stags and a fine 



roebuck," or " several harts and a couple of roe- 

 deer in fine condition," scarcely need comment. 

 The deer are killed at their best time of year, and 

 are, of course, as fat as they can be ; while the 

 poor roes are massacred out of season, being 

 simply carrion. Until they exchange the red hair 

 for the mouse-coloured, they are only bags of 

 bones covered by some dark dry flesh, with not 

 a particle of fat. The summer coat begins to 

 change for the winter one in September, being 

 complete in November, before which time no roes 

 should be shot. Eed-deer harts, on the contrary, 

 never come into prime order until they are divested 



