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be done. In time, as the winter and winds 

 break down the straw rope, fragments of 

 it alone remain, drooping from the stakes 

 among the fresh green beech spray of the 

 spring. Wire is sometimes placed along 

 above flakes in the arable fields. Ingenious 

 scarecrows are put up ; the stags on enter- 

 ing the field quietly walk to the dummy 

 figure and sniff it contemptuously, as if they 

 were perfectly aware from the first of its 

 harmless character, and merely took that 

 trouble out of habitual precaution. Some one 

 tried high white gates to frighten them. The 

 first time one of the white gates was left open 

 the stags walked through. 



Apples they are extremely fond of. They 

 enter an orchard at night and go through 

 stripping every branch they can reach, and 

 stags can reach high and clear boughs far- 

 ther up a tree than would be supposed. 

 They swallow the apples without biting 

 them, just take them from the branch and 

 swallow at once. Now and then when a 



