PREFACE. 



The reader will see for himself that the knowledge 

 gathered has in some instances been more copiously 

 given than in others, but in all cases my best and 

 most grateful thanks are due to the ladies and 

 gentlemen who have so courteously and so kindly 

 helped me, for without their friendly aid I should have 

 felt it almost impossible to put these pages together in 

 a sufficiently interesting and authentic form ; and now, 

 at the end of my task, my earnest hope is that in 

 them no one will be able to find anything to which 

 they can fairly take exception. In a very few cases 

 I have not been able to get any information given 

 me, and in these circumstances I have stated this has 

 been the case, while merely mentioning of such forests 

 that which is public property and known to everyone 

 who cares to make enquiries. 



The wild, romantic, and beautiful scenery of the 

 deer forests quickly imbues in most men a feeling 

 of admiration, romance and desire of being able 

 to soar above mere prose, so as to describe in verse 

 those ever-changing beauties of nature with which 



