BRITISH MAMMALS 



beloved Britain, had for the best part of a lifetime pro- 

 mised himself a sight of the proud monarch of the hills. 

 One was not prepared for such an unexpected and 

 unrehearsed happening. If, for instance, we had sud- 



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denly espied a fine antlered head over the brow of a hill 



after a hard day's stalking, we should have been more 



ready to take in the situation. But the mirrored forms 



fascinated us, and, as we looked up, we saw within a 



stone's throw of our craft a company of wild Red Deer, 



standing at attention on a precipitous, rocky ledge, 



driven from their higher altitudes by the stress of hard 

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