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III. 

 DEER IN SUMMER. 



A path leads along the edge of a round 

 green hill standing by itself in the midst of 

 the dark heather-covered moors which over- 

 look it. In shape it resembles a skull-cap 

 of green velvet imitated in sward, or it 

 might be a great tennis-ball cut in two. 

 This is Cloutsham Ball, and it looks like a 

 green ball among the surrounding heather, 

 contrasting in its colour and in its form with 

 the moors. They undulate in long swelling 

 contours ; the Ball is globular. So round 

 and smooth is the outline, that had it been 

 carved with the chisel it could hardly have 

 been more regular. From a distance it 

 appears much smaller than it is, a mere toy at 

 the foot of the vast moors, but it is a mathe- 



