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quotation. Looking up the play in question 

 in Knight's Pictorial Shakespeare, I find 

 the " sequester'd stag" represented as a 

 fallow buck, and one of "the careless herd," 

 resembling more than anything else an 

 American black-tailed deer — two singular 

 inaccuracies in one engraving. But all the 

 drawings of deer given in this play are open 

 to criticism. The description of the conduct 

 of the herd of red deer towards a wounded 

 companion may be true to nature, but most 

 animals show considerable consideration to 

 a wounded member, and generally wait and 

 look back for him after the first rush a rifle 

 report produces. 



