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uprights; a five-year old, brow, bay, and tray; two on 

 top, that is, a crocket on one horn, and an upright on the 

 other. A warrantable Stag has brow, bay, and tray, and 

 two points on the top of both horns. After this age their 

 heads vary very much in appearance. 



If the impression of a deer's foot measures full two 

 inches at the heel, he is warrantable ; if three inches, and 

 the hoofs mark deeply in the ground, allowing for its 

 nature, he is a large, heavy, old deer. Such bring up 

 their hind feet to the impression made by their fore ones. 



The tread of a hind is much narrower and longer than 

 that of the male, particularly at the toe, whilst the hart's 

 is broad and round at that point, instead of being narrow. 



" Then, if he ask, what slot or view I found, 

 I say the slot or view was long on ground : 

 The toes were great, the joynt bones round and short, 

 The shinne bones largo, the dew-claws close in port: 

 Short joynted was he, hollow-footed eke, 

 An hart to hunt as any man can seeke." Art of Venerie. 



The mark of a deer's tread is called his slot; his haunt 

 is termed his lair ; where he lies down, his harbour or bed ; 

 where he rolls himself, his soiling pool ; his breaking place 

 over a hedge, his rack ; when he goes to water it is called 

 going to soil; if headed back, it is called blanched ; if he 

 stops in a river, or lies down in a pool, during the chase, 

 it is called sinking himself. 



Harts that are crowned with three points at the upper 

 extremity of each horn are termed royal. 



We read, also, of the hart royal proclaimed. Manwood 

 mentions a fact, which he found on record in the Castle 

 of Nottingham : it is dated in the time of Richard I., who 



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