2 RED DEER. 



woods. Or, if accepted as a fact, it is looked 

 at in the same light as the preservation of 

 white wild cattle in certain parks, wild but 

 protected by enclosure. Those, of course, 

 who have hunted in Somerset are well 

 acquainted with the truth, but to the 

 majority of people the red deer of Ex- 

 moor are like the golden eagles shot from 

 time to time as they pass over southern 

 woods, and preserved as valuable curiosities. 

 Although so many tourists visit Somerset and 

 Devon, and go through the red deer country, 

 their objects are generally scenery or trout- 

 fishing, and they are there at a season when 

 the deer are peculiarly shy and seldom seen. 

 Nor, if seen, could a casual passer-by under- 

 stand the full meaning of their appearance. 

 They are associated with the deer kept in 

 parks, and considered to be wild only in a 

 limited sense. 



In reality the red deer are wild in the 

 fullest sense of the term, as wild and unre- 

 strained in their movements as the deer of 



