THE DEER 



Stag going to Drink. 



During certain seasons, Stags fight fiercely with one .another. At these times it is hazardous to approach them ; 

 and persons have been known to lose their lives by so doing. When thus fighting, they bellow with 

 frightful loudness. They loose their customary watchfulness, and their blundering often ends fatally to 

 themselves. It is not unusual for them, while thus struggling for the mastery, to draw gradually to the 

 edge of some cliff, over whose edge both the combatants, heedless of every thing but fighting, are pre- 

 cipitated. The experienced deer-stalker 

 will tell you that such instances are 

 neither improbable nor uncommon. 

 Though not in season as food at that 

 particular time, many of them fall a 

 prey to the Highland poacher, and some 

 of them are shot by their keepers. 



Stags Fighting. 



Elk Deer. 



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