398 May 1749. . 



When it went into the woods, it was often 

 accompanied by wild flags, and decoyed 

 them even into the very houfes, efpecially 

 in rutting time, giving its mafter numer 

 rous opportunities of mooting the wild 

 flags, alrnoft at his door. Its fcent was 

 excellent, and when it was turned towards 

 the wind, I often faw it rifing and looking 

 towards that part, though I did not fee 

 any people on the road, but they common- 

 ly appeared about an hour after. As foon 

 as the wild flags have the fcent of a man, 

 they make off. In winter the map fed the 

 hind with corn and hay ; but in furnmer 

 it went out into the woods and meadows, 

 fteking its own food,, eating both grafs and 

 other plants : it was now kept in a mea- 

 dow ; it did chiefly eat clover, the leaves 

 of hiccory, of the Andromeda paniculata^ 

 and the Geranium maculatum. It was like- 

 \vife contented with the leaves pf the com- 

 mon plantane, or Plantagq, graffes, and fe- 

 veral other plants. The porTeffor of this 

 |iind fold flags to people in Philadelphia^ 

 who fent them as curiofities to other places. 

 He got twenty- five, thirty, and forty mil- 

 lings a-piece for them. The food of the 

 wild flags in fummer is grafs and feveral 

 plants ; but in winter, when they are not to 

 be got, they eat the moots and young 



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