Their skins are also in demand for making some of the hest 

 grades of leather. When properly tanned it is very pliable and 

 will outwear most any other leather. Their antlers are very mas- 

 sive and of different form from others of the deer. At the point 

 they broaden out into a wide palm, from which the points at very 

 irregular intervals project from an inch in length to sometimes 

 over a foot. The total spread of both antlers will vary from three 

 feet to over six feet, and a single antler from one has been found 

 to measure on the under curve from the skull to the longest point 

 five feet. 



Their ears are large and they are very quick to detect any un- 

 usual sound. The nose is large, being much wider at the nostril 

 than in the middle of the head, which brings the upper lip and nos- 

 tril forward so that it overhangs the under lip. The skull bones 

 are very thick and solid, making with the immense antlers a weight 

 which it would seem almost impossible for them to carry for any 



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