Transporting Deer 



imagine a deer can learn to climb and partly jump them. I knew 

 a wild boar that could get over such a fence. 



If there is a way leading from the house into the park, as, for 

 instance, an arch through which to drive from the stables, although 

 there is not much chance of deer getting out that way in the day- 

 time when people are about, or at night when the lights are lit, 

 yet it ought to be furnished with a gate as high as the rest of the 

 park-paling, as otherwise deer will get out when all is quiet at 

 night. 



I find if deer do get out, they can often be driven in again 

 with the aid of a few slow old foxhounds, especially if they have 

 gone out down an avenue or any place which will serve as a 

 funnel along which to drive them back. 



I have known fallow deer which never jumped the fence out of 

 the park, yet when they happened to get out of the park by a gate 

 left open, were easily driven back into the park over the fence by 

 a few foxhounds ; the jump in that case was, however, with the 

 ditch on the landing side, instead of on the take-off side, as it 

 would be from the park. 



When a deer is wounded, it moves along the fence trying every 

 crevice to get out, and I have known a pair of wounded fallow 

 does hide inside a faggot-stack. 



Of course, in deer-paddocks all gates should be kept locked, 

 and the keys in charge of the keeper. 



