AND MANAGEMENT. 



steady horse. When it is wished to bring up a fawn by 

 hand it is better to take it away from its mother as soon 

 as possible after it has been dropped ; it will soon take 

 to the bottle with a quill through the cork, and a piece 

 of wash leather over it for the fawn to suck at. The 

 fawn should be fed at least five times a day, giving it 

 a small quantity of new milk; care should be taken to 

 feed early in the morning; it has been found a good 

 plan to put a very small quantity of spirit in the milk 

 occasionally if it does not thrive well. Some persons 

 are able to bring them up without difficulty, the trouble 

 being repaid by the pleasure which the grace and 

 beauty of the little animal afford, especially where 

 children are allowed to have a pretty pet to follow 

 them in their rambles. 



As the bucks are now coming into the natural 

 season we will go on to speak of them for venison ; 

 they are now in fine condition, looking splendid, many 

 of them with their full-grown horns completely covered 

 with what is technically called "velvet," and is very 

 like^ velvet in its appearance and touch ; this soft 

 covering completely envelops the horns till they are 

 full-grown, and it appears to be a protection to the 

 blood-vessels that rise from the head, expanding in a 

 tree-like shape over the horns, supplying the material 

 for their growth and formation ; if a hard-shed horn is 

 carefully examined the lines formed by the blood- 

 vessels on its surface will be visible ; at any rate, the 

 velvet appears to be a temporary and all-wise ar- 

 rangement for the development of the horn, for soon 

 after the horn is complete it gradually hardens, and the 

 velvet peels off to speak more at length, the horns of 

 the fallow buck vary considerably, being larger or 

 smaller in different parks. The forest bucks (now 

 nearly extinct) have a peculiar horn, the palm, unlike 

 that of park deer, divides from the top, so making a 

 large and broad branch and division in the palm ; this 

 distinction is known only to the few who have seen the 

 heads of forest bucks ; the horns are shed every year 



