ANTLERS FOUND IN THE WOOD. 



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generally broken. Some country folk put them in their 

 hats to cure headache, which is a very old superstition ; 

 but more in sport than earnest. There are no deer now 

 in the park. There used to be a hundred years ago, and 

 her husband has found several cast antlers in the wood. 



ANTLERS ON THE STAIRCASE. 



The best are up at the great house, but there is one on her 

 staircase. Will I take a few chestnuts ? It is winter — 

 the proper time — and these are remarkably fine. No tree 

 is apparently so capricious in its yield as the chestnut in 

 English woods : the fruit of many is so small as to be 

 worthless, or else it does not reach maturity. But these 



