i?o RED DEER. 



from abroad ; but it is rare to find one 

 that was actually trapped as this one was 

 by a living person. There is, too, a polecat, 

 or fitch, with ferret-like head, and an otter 

 beneath ; a black harrier, marsh harriers, 

 an osprey, shot at the trout ponds, heath- 

 poult, a long-eared owl, and many others. 

 A kite was shot lately ; his wings out- 

 stretched were almost as wide as a man's 

 arms held open. 



On the top of a bird- case is a powder- 

 flask, and by it pipes in a stand ; on the great 

 black central table lies a gun — there are 

 fourteen guns about somewhere, but these 

 are not enough for such a sportsman, and 

 negotiations are proceeding for the purchase 

 of another. When the fifteenth has been 

 purchased there will soon be talk of another, 

 for guns are things you never get tired of 

 buying and trying. Under the table on the 

 stone floor is one of Sir Francis Drake's 

 magic cannon-balls. The tale is well known 

 how he was fighting the Spaniards and his 



