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to single one out for a run, the hounds 

 divide, and the day is half gone before the 

 chase begins. Could the deer be got out of 

 the forest to live more in the heather on 

 the hills it would be an advantage. Damage 

 to the crops is more serious when concen- 

 trated in a locality, and of course if a large 

 herd of deer remain in a wood they will 

 feed on whatever is nearest. But they are 

 not to be moved without difficulty ; they are 

 most capricious in their likes and dislikes, 

 and have been compared in this respect to 

 moles. One day a mole-hill appears sud- 

 denly in a field, another is immediately 

 thrown up, a third, a fourth, whole rows of 

 mole-hills, nor can trapping exterminate 

 them. After awhile the moles go on, and 

 desert the place. Deer used to lie a great 

 deal at Slowby, and do not now so much. 

 Haddon Hill is a favourite locality ; yet in 

 the spring of the present year numbers of 

 them had gone across to Hawkridge. They 

 go where they like and stop where they like. 



