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a thousand K^own stags are shot m the country every year, and 

 the number mioht more properly be set down at three thousand, if 

 we inckide hinds and the younger stags. 



Fallow deer are not indigenous to the country, but were imported 

 at a remote date. At the same time these deer have ^^^^^^ 

 by now run wild in many parts of the country, and ^^^^ 

 the wild bucks put on much better horns than those 

 in parks, and. when stalked during the month of October, give very 



fair sport. 



But the most graceful of all our deer, and the one that offers 

 the enthusiastic stalker the greatest amusement throughout the 

 greater part of the year, is undoubtedly the little ^^^^^^^ 

 roe The season for roe opens on 1st April and 

 ends only with the winter. In the month of April, when the 

 roe keeps out in the open, he may be stalked, antelope-fashion, 

 in a carriage. In May and June he is stalked on foot: and at 

 the end of July, as well as in the early days of August, there is 

 an exciting method of calling him up with the doe-call, to which 

 he may come at great speed. There is, in fact, no animal that 

 chives the sportsman residing in the country ntore agreeable and 

 varied sport than the roebuck. It is plentiful in every district in 

 which proper attention is paid to its protection, and in some parts 

 of the country there is such abundance that great bags are occasion- 

 ally made. For example. His Imperial and Royal Highness the 

 Archduke Francis Ferdinand shot in the spring of 1899 at Count 

 Tassilo Festetics' no fewer than sixty-six selected old bucks in 

 three days. And I could quote cases in which twenty and more 



