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so large that they have had to be thinned. 

 Times have indeed changed since hinds were 

 not killed at all, in order that they might 

 breed, and turnips and wheat were sown on 

 purpose for the deer. 



If seven or eight deer were killed in a 

 season it was as much as was expected — 

 once eleven were killed, and it was thought 

 that such a number would never be reached 

 again. But in the season of 1881-82, 

 no less than one hundred and one deer 

 were killed ; the slot of the hundredth 

 deer is mounted in silver, and preserved at 

 the huntsman's house. He reckons that 

 there arc fifty stags in the district, and some 

 two hundred and fifty deer of all sizes. But 

 besides these, there must be many more 

 out-lying in the broad tract of country 

 they now roam over. Eighty have been seen 

 in one herd ; eighty at once crossing a 

 road. Twenty-six stags have been counted 

 together. Four hundred years ago, in the 

 language of the chase, twenty was a little 



