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unless he has permission to join in the sport of deer-stalking. 

 In Ireland hundreds of them still dwell wild upon the moun- 

 tainous ranges called Macgillicuddy's Reeks, the Tomies (which 

 include the Purple Mountain and Glena), and the Turk Range. 

 England contains very few in a wild state. There are said to 

 be some in Gloucestershire, and in a few other parts of the 

 southern districts of the country, and in the New Forest. The 

 stags which are kept in a small park at Windsor to be hunted 

 by the royal stag-hounds, are of course in a semi -domesticated 

 state, and the hunt there is an insignificant affair in comparison 

 to what it is in Scotland. In Richmond Park there is generally 

 a stock of from forty to fifty red deer. 



A full grown stag is sometimes about four feet in height, or 



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