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For instance, a stag with seven points on one horn and six on the 

 other, which would in England be called a thirteen-pointer, is desig- 

 nated in Germany an uneven fourteen-pointer. This, I presume, 

 originated from a thirteen-pointer being regarded as a malformed 

 fourteen-pointer, just as a man with a finger missing from one hand 

 might be called an uneven-fingered man. 



The horns of the stags, as of course those who study natural 

 history know, are shed and renewed each year. 



On the main beam the first point above the forehead is called the 

 brow-point, the second the bay-point, and the third the tray-point. I 

 have seen a fourth point in one or two heads above this, but am not 

 acquainted with any name for such a tine. The head in which I 

 observed this was in a country inn in Galicia ; but as I was in a hurry 

 to shoot a bear which was in the neighbourhood, and never got back 

 to the inn, I cannot give further details, although I know it was a big- 

 wapiti type of red deer with some fourteen or more points and a brow, 

 bay, tray, and fourth point on each horn besides the cup at the 

 summit. 



A ten-pointer may be in two forms, or a combination of the two 

 forms ; that is to say, either brow, bay, and tray, and two points 

 at the top on each horn ; or brow, tray, and a cup on each horn, 

 or one horn of each of these types.* The nine-pointer in a similar 

 manner has the number of points on his five-pointed horn in either 

 of these forms, and the other horn with brow, tray, and a fork at 

 the top. In the case of a seven-pointer, there are a brow, bay, 

 and fork on one horn, and brow, bay, and end of beam on the 

 other. 



* See deer No. 4 in illustration on page 103. 



