1 62 RED DEER. 



village street are tame indeed, since it is 

 difficult to avoid driving over them, and 

 there is a manifest absence of aimless bru- 

 tality, such brutality as compels owners of 

 trout streams near large cities to cover the 

 water over with hurdles from bank to bank, 

 lest the fish in spawning time be destroyed 

 by stones. There is a total absence of 

 ruffianism of this kind. 



Something else, too, besides the red deer has 

 survived, and that is courtesy. Go wherever 

 you will in red deer country you will be met 

 with politeness, hospitality, and readiness to 

 oblige. If you are thirsty you have only 

 to knock at the nearest door, and, according 

 to your taste, you can partake of cider or 

 milk ; and it is ten to one you are asked to 

 enter and spend half an hour in a pleasant 

 gossip. Everywhere there is welcome, and 

 the slightest incident is sufficient introduc- 

 tion ; everywhere hospitality, and everywhere 

 politeness. On the road every man you 

 meet, according; to his station, nods his head 



