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the stag's back and souse into tlic water 

 beside him, amid the roars of merciless 

 laughter from "all and sundry" who stood 

 watching the performance. If he had only 

 let go of the crop he might have saved him- 

 self easily, but one never does manage to 

 think of those thing's at the rio'ht moment. 



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AVire is a terrible bugbear to a stag ; he 

 never seems able to see it, and I have wit- 

 nessed several of the poor brutes get falls, 

 more or less severe, over this ever -to -be 

 execrated thing. I only hope that here- 

 after all our "cuss-words account," swelled 

 as it is to enormous dimensions through 

 making speeches on the subject of wire, will 

 be sent in to the people who invented and 

 the people who use such an abomination. 



As to barbed wire ! I have wasted half- 



an-hour trying to think of an adjective that 

 shall adequately express what I think upon 

 the subject. I have failed to do so, and, 

 therefore, pass on to another subject. 



For the man who can only snatch a day 

 with hounds occasionally, the stag offers. 



