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with a regular spring. Lately I read of the khakur, or barking deer, 

 making this noise ; though I often met with it, I never studied that 

 species, so may be wrong, but I feel certain it is caused by the same 

 movement of the feet- joints, and not by any portion of the mouth, as 

 was suggested in the article I read. 



Anyone who wants to taste real venison may have it from the haunch 

 of the musk-deer; I never found anything to equal it, cooked in the 

 primitive fashion of a bent stick and piece of string before a clear camp 

 fire. In a pie, or cold, it is delicious, and I only regret that eating it 

 entails the slaughter of a beautiful, harmless, and otherwise valueless 

 animal ; I rarely shot it, although I met with it scores of times. 



