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SPORT IN EUROPE 



can hardly be realised by the man who knows only one of the two 

 countries. I have frequently listened with some amusement to critics 

 upholding in exaggerated terms the superiority of Highland stalking, 

 ridiculing the "pleasure of creeping up and potting deer blinded with 

 passion, whose instincts of self-preservation were so blunted that they 

 would fall an easy prey to the rifle of the greenest novice." At such 



BRINGING HOME STAG AND ROEBUCK (STYRIA). 



criticism, those who have grassed a warrantable Brunft-Hu^sch in 

 an Austrian forest may well smile, for it betrays ignorance of a 

 fundamental provision of Nature in the shape of sundry pairs of 

 very watchful eyes, ears, and nostrils of alert hinds who at this 

 season take upon themselves the task of watching over the safety 

 of their love-sick lord. And how well they fulfil their self-imposed 



