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care for their existence) the red deer also. Throughout 

 England, and the greater part of Scotland too, the red 

 and fallow-deer, like the wild bull, exist only as park 

 animals, while in both countries the wild boar has 

 altogether ceased to live. 



It was not so once. I have already given in my 

 last chapter Sir Walter Scott's account — shall I call it 

 traditional, or historical, or both, as I believe it is ? — 

 of the state of southern Scotland, and its wild cattle 

 during the war with the second Edward. Let me give 

 as most apposite to my subject the supposed hunting 

 match which he describes as undertaken by Sir John de 

 Walton and the English garrison of Douglas Castle, so 

 far as it relates to the pursuit of these animals. " The 

 wild cattle, the most formidable of all the tenants of 

 the ancient Caledonian forest, were, however, to the 

 English cavaliers by far the most interesting objects of 

 pursuit. . . . During the course of the hunting, 

 when a stag or a boar was expected, one of the wild 

 cattle often came rushing forward, bearing down the 

 young trees, crashing the branches on its progress, and 

 in general dispersing whatever opposition was presented 

 to it by the hunters. Sir John de Walton was the only 

 one of the chivalry of the party who individually 

 succeeded in mastering one of these powerful animals. 

 Like a Spanish tauridor, he bore down and killed with 

 his lance a ferocious bull ; two well-grown calves and 

 three kine were also slain, being unable to carry off 

 the quantity of arrows, javelins, and other missiles, 

 directed against them by the archers and drivers, 

 but many others, in spite of every endeavour to inter- 

 cept them, escaped to their gloomy haunts in the 

 remote skirts of the mountain called Cairntable, with 



