308 SHOOTING. 



last is the quickest mode of dispatching a dog, 

 horse, or any other domestic animal. When a deer 

 is wounded and separates from the herd one or two 

 dogs should be instantly slipped. 



The modern terms applied to the male and female 

 fallow-deer are buck and doe, and to the young ones 

 fauns. To roe-deer ; buck and doe, and the young 

 ones kid^s. The mature red-deer, of whatever age, 

 is termed by the forest-keeper and deer-stalker a 

 hart, by the hunter a stag, the female is a hind, and 

 the young ones are calves. The red-deer is not 

 properly a hart until his sixth year, or until he 

 has attained his full-head, which is when each 

 beam is furnished with brow, bay and tray antlers, 

 and not fewer than two points at the top. 



In olden times, when to be discovered at " dog- 

 draw"* or " stable-stand,"* in a forest, chase, or 

 purlieu, was as perilous to the personal freedom of 

 the individual, as if he had attempted the life of the 

 lord of the soil, the country swarmed with officers 

 whose titles and duties are all but forgotten, such as 

 agistors, bow-bearers, wood-wards, wardens, fores- 

 ters, rangers, regarders, verderors, all of whom were 

 in some way connected with the preservation of vert 

 and venison. The technical terms for every thing 

 connected with forests and deer were innumerable, 

 and entered into the common language of life, as did 

 afterwards the falconer's terms. The ceremonies too 



* Dog-draw, in the ancient language of the chase, signified the 

 tracking, or drawing after deer with a hound or other dog. Stable- 

 stand was the act of standing in ambush with a bow and arrow, and 

 with deer hounds in leash ready to slip. 



