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CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER 



hunted this country with great success, as my 

 readers shall be told hereafter. This was the head 

 of an old stag which had shown the captain's hounds 

 many a good run in the Cheltenham country as an 

 uncasted deer. He became at last so vicious that it 

 was thought advisable to emasculate him and saw off 



An irregular head of a deer. 



his horns just above the brow antlers. He remained 

 thus shorn of his honours for four years without any 

 appearance of fresh growth of horn, when, to the 

 surprise of every one, a thin spire of horn six or 

 eight inches in length was thrown out on each stump. 

 Possibly good feeding may have caused this. But I 



