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When it went into the woods, it was often 

 accompanied by wild flags, and decoyed 

 them even into the very houfes, efpecially 

 in rutting time, giving its mafter nume- 

 rous opportunities of mooting the wild 

 flags, almofl at his door. Its fcent was 

 excellent, and when it was turned towards 

 the wind, I often faw it rifmg and looking 

 towards that part, though I did not fee 

 any people on the road, but they common- 

 ly appeared about an hour after. As foon 

 as the wild flags have the fcent of a man, 

 they make off. In winter the man fed the 

 hind with corn and hay ; but in fummer 

 it went out into the woods and meadows, 

 feeking its own food, eating both grafs and 

 other plants : it was now kept in a mea- 

 dow ; it did chiefly eat clover, the leaves 

 of hiccory, of the Andromeda paniculate 

 and the Geranium maculatum. It was like- 

 wife contented with the leaves of the com- 

 mon plantane, or Plantago, graffes, and fe- 

 veral other plants. The poffenor of this 

 hind fold flags to people in Philadelphia, 

 who fent them as curiofities to other places. 

 He got twenty- five, thirty, and forty mil- 

 lings a- piece for them. The food of the 

 wild flags in fummer is grafs and feveral 

 plants ; but in winter, when they are not to 

 be got, they eat the ihoots and young 



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