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HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



great difficulty: the sportsman pursues in his broad 

 rackets, or snow-shoes, and makes a ready prey of 

 the distressed animal. 



''As weak against the mountain-heaps they push 

 " Their beating breasts in vain, and piteous bray, 

 " He lays them quiv'ring on th' ensanguin'd snows, 

 "And with loud shouts rejoicing bears them home." 



The female is less than the male, and has no 

 horns. They are in season in the autumn ; and 

 bring forth in April, sometimes one, but generally 

 two young ones at a time, which arrive at their full 

 growth in six years. 



