THE RED DEER'S HOME 



shrieking engines and all other forms of modern 

 Philistinism, that the old English stag finds a free 

 lodging, cropping the pastures of his native wilds 

 without a thought of fences or barriers of any kind. 

 For Squire Hasell, the popular representative of one 

 of the best and most sporting families in the North of 

 England, does not surround his forest with artificial 

 bounds. The deer are absolutely unshackled and 

 wander as freely as any Highland deer, feeding where 

 they will and sleeping as they list. The sanctuary of 

 Martindale is the hill known locally as the ' Nab.' 

 It is not marked upon all the maps, but it lies 

 between Rampsgill and Bannerdale. If you look up 

 the valley of Martindale, just after -you leave the old 

 church (where they used to hang the heads of ravens 

 on the ancient yew tree), you will see the steep slopes 

 of Rampsgill lying to your left. Bannerdale occupies 

 the right corner of the dale. The rounded hill which 

 stands out against the skyline between Rampsgill and 

 Bannerdale is the 'Nab.' There is plenty of good 

 feeding for deer on the ' Nab.' Of course its sides 

 are seamed with crags ; but it includes fine grassy 

 slopes, varied with bracken, which add a rust-red 

 hue to the landscape when the leaves have begun to 

 assume the varied hues which we look for at the fall 

 of the year. 



