2QO GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



head of deer. But this, I was also informed, was the 

 case. 



Driving deer is a recognised method of proceeding 

 in the Highlands of Scotland, but it is only practised 

 in very large forests, or by arrangement between several 

 shooting tenants, as it disturbs the deer so. Natu- 

 rally no one wishes to drive the deer off their own 

 forest for others to shoot at. 



On the Continent of Europe it is much more 

 commonly practised, but deer only are rarely the object 

 of a drive, which generally includes hares and foxes also. 

 I have already referred to these drives in my chapter 

 on " Roe-deer Shooting." 



I now turn to the last method of deer-shooting, 

 included in the scope of this chapter. Here, again, the 

 chapter just referred to greatly bars my way, as it treats 

 also of this method i.e., that in which the deer are 

 found and hunted by hounds until they pass within shot 

 of one of the guns. This is also a method made use of 

 in the south of the United States. Personally, I have 

 never seen any other deer than the roe so killed abroad, 

 but it was once my singular good fortune to participate 

 in such a day's fallow-deer shooting in England. The 

 locality on this occasion was the New Forest, more 

 identified with hunting than shooting in most people's 

 minds. 



Officially speaking, there are no deer in this 

 forest. Many years ago an Act of Parliament was 

 passed, ordering the destruction of all the deer in the 

 Crown Forests of England. This order was stringently 



