THE BUCK. 



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Gilbert White relates, that some men suspecting that a new 

 born calf was lying in a certain spot of thick fern, went with 

 a lurcher to surprise it ; but the hind rushed out of the brake, 

 and taking a vigorous spring, with her feet closed together, 

 alighted upon the dog's neck and dislocated it. 



It is hardly necessary to mention that the flesh or venison 

 is eaten, and that the horns are manufactured into handles 

 for knives and forks, or that the shavings yield ammonia, from 

 whence the common name of hart's-horn. The Highlanders in 

 the time of Henry VIII. made their shoes of the skin ; and as 

 it was the fashion to wear the furry side outwards, they acquired 

 the name of the Rough-footed Scots. 



THE BUCK, OR FALLOW DEER. (Cervus Dama, Linn.) 



Cuvier remarks, that this beautiful species, now so common 

 in all Europe, seems to have been originally introduced from 

 Barbary j by others it is supposed to have been brought from 

 Bengal. The British specimens are thought to have been first 

 obtained from the south of Europe, whither they had also been 

 imported. The more hardy variety, which is almost entirely 



