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SPORT IN EUROPE 



BRINGING HOME THE STAG FROM THE MOUNTAINS 



deer. The damage even half a dozen of them will commit in a 

 single night is extraordinary, and it has to be made good by the 

 owner or lessee of the nearest forest, according to the assessment 

 of a Government commissioner sent to the spot to appraise it. 



In Hungary and Galicia the heads of red deer are, as everyone 

 knows, superior to those of Austria proper, for not only is the food, 

 in the shape of beechmast, etc., much richer, and the climate of less 

 alpine severity, but stags have a better chance of reaching mature 

 years in the primeval forests still to be found in those countries. Of 

 these details it is, however, another's business to speak. 



Some of the old customs of the chase which are still kept up 

 in Austrian forests take one back to the Middle Ages. Lack of 



