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have no other milk but what the hind produces, 

 and use no other cheese but what is made from 

 thence. In this manner we find, that an animal 

 which seems made only for man's amusement, 

 may be easily brought to supply his necessities. 

 Nature has many stores of happiness and plenty 

 in reserve, which only want the call of industry 

 to be produced, and now remain as candidates for 

 human approbation. 



THE FALLOW-DEER. 



No two animals can be more nearly allied than 

 the stag and the fallow-deer.* Alike in form, 

 alike in disposition, in the superb furniture of 

 their heads, in their swiftness and timidity ; and 

 yet no two animals keep more distinct, or avoid 

 each other with more fixed animosity. They are 

 never seen to herd in the same place, they never 

 engender together, or form a mixed breed ; and 

 even in those countries where the stag is common, 

 the buck seems to be entirely a stranger. In 

 short, they both form distinct families ; which, 

 though so seemingly near, are still remote ; and 

 although with the same habitudes, yet retain an 

 unalterable aversion. 



The fallow-deer, as they are much smaller, so 

 they seem of a nature less robust, and less savage 

 than those of the stag kind. They are found but 



* Buffon, vol. xii. p. 36. 



