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of most, the roe is the sweetest chase of all, 

 The buck's venison is incomparable food, 

 and is dressed like hart venison, only the 

 last may be preserved longer than the former : 

 he herds more than the hart, and lies in the 

 driest places ; but if he be at large, and un- 

 confined within the limitary precincts of a 

 park, he will herd but little from May to 

 August, because the flies trouble him. He 

 takes great delight in hilly places, but the 

 dales please him most to feed in. 



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It is very easy to shoot or hunt, and goes 

 to rut, or tower, most generally in October, 

 the extent of which consists of fifteen days, 

 and he never parts with the doe till fawning- 

 time. The doe finding herself near her 

 time secretly departs from the buck, and 

 fawns as far from him as she can, for could 

 he find the fawn he would kill it ; but when 

 the fawn grows big, can run and feed, she 

 then lovingly again returns to the buck. So 



