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the immediate protection of man, like the fallow Deer, but 

 are left to range in forests and chaces ; where they furnish 

 diversion to hunters of the first order. The stag is sup- 

 posed to live about forty years. He has good eyes, an 

 exquisite smell, and a quick sense of hearing. He appears 

 fond of music, and snews no particular dread of man, 

 unless when attended by dogs, or furnished with arms ; 

 against dogs, he will sometimes make head with peculiar 

 resolution. Indeed, his intrepidity on emergencies is very 

 great: William, duke of Cumberland, having caused a 

 tiger and a stag to be inclosed in the same area, the latter 

 made such a bold defence that the savage tiger was obliged 

 to fly. 



THE FALLOW-DEER. 



THE Fallow-Deer, th male of which is called a buck, 

 and the female a doe, is a well known animal, and is kept 

 in parks to serve the purposes of pleasure and luxury. 

 Having undergone a species of domestication, it varies 

 very much in colour ; and climate and food have every 

 sensible effect on its size, and the flavour of its flesh. 



THE MOOSE-OR ELK. 



THE Moose is the largest of the deer kind, but by no 

 means so handsome in his form as the other species of 

 deer having long and heavy horns, large head, short 

 neck, and very long legs. It is found in North America. 



