FALLOW DEER. 



m hardly doubt that they are a part of our 

 ^d indigenous fauna, which now survives 

 nly in a few enclosed preserves. The wild 

 rhite cattle at Chillingham, the red deer on 

 le Scotch moors, and these pretty does and 

 Lwns in Woolney Park, all trace back their 

 [ncestry, I believe, to the time when England 

 ^as clad by one almost unbroken sheet of 

 )aks and beeches, and still earlier to the time 

 rhen a great belt of land connected it with 

 [he Continent from Holland to Portugal. 

 !ven the veriest Red Radical like myself 

 lay well share John Mill's hope that the 

 [pread of agriculture and political economy 

 lay never succeed in improving these dear 

 lumb friends and pensioners of ours off the 

 Face of the earth. They are one of the beau- 

 [iful links which bind us to the prae-human 

 )ast ; and I hope we may hand them on as 

 )art of our common heritage to those who 

 ill follow us hereafter in a higher and more 

 luman future. 



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