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You will find magnificent stags which resemble the 

 majestic elk ; then again there are many large stags 

 whose ugliness and ungainliness are such that they 

 are almost comical. So also with the does and 

 fawns. People, as a rule, fail to realise this marked 

 individuality in wild creatures, both as to appear- 

 ance arid character. Yet I believe it to be as 

 great as, if not greater than, with the human being. 

 The pictures which accompany this article, though 

 they do not do justice to the originals, at least give 

 some slight suggestion of their beauty, and I hope 

 they will help to correct the common idea that the 

 animals are always ungainly and unlovely. If so, I 

 shall feel even more fully repaid than I have already 

 been by the joy of doing the work itself. As to 

 the pleasure of doing this work, I have no words at 

 my command which will give any idea of it. There 

 is in it a peculiar fascination, almost impossible to 

 describe. A fascination and pleasure which obli- 

 terates all traces of the hardships, yes, and even 

 sufferings with which the work is often attended. 

 To give some sort of a reality to this work, I feel that 

 the writing should be done on the spot, for it has 

 been said by the wise ones that a man should be in 

 the environment of which he is writing. Surely 

 I am in the proper environment, even though the 

 conditions scarcely favour writing, for while I see 

 the pencil moving in a somewhat erratic manner 

 over the paper, my hands are so benumbed by 

 cold that I can feel nothing. How different from 

 writing in an attic, where bare walls stare insolently 

 and each step on the rickety stairs suggests the 

 postman coming with manuscripts " returned with 



