8o CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER 



14th, Frances Tucker, killed by a stag,' A stone 

 in the churchyard also calls the attention of the 

 passer-by to the cause of poor Fanny's death. 



A few years ago the late Earl of Carnarvon had 

 one of these animals taken, when a calf, from his 

 native woods and placed in Pixton Park. He was 

 quite harmless until about three years old, when he 

 manifested a propensity to attack persons passing 

 through the park. To prevent mischief, orders 

 were given to saw off his horns. Some months 

 after this I was in the house, and heard an alarm- 

 ing noise proceeding from without. On going out, 

 I found the deer had attacked a child of the butler, 

 knocked it down, and was trampling it with his 

 hoofs, when the father, hearing its cries, hastened 

 to the spot and effected a rescue. 



I believe that the danger of keeping red deer in 

 parks, without companions of their own species, has 

 been felt in many instances ; and I think I am right 

 in saying that at Beddington Park, in Surrey, the 

 propensity of a stag to attack people was such that 

 it was found necessary to destroy him. 



' The harte doth marvell and is astonyed when 

 he heareth one call or whistle in his fist. And for 

 proofe, when you see an hart runne before you in 

 the day-time, and that he be in the playne, call after 



