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Mr. Chandos-Pole-Grell, who had seen them previously 

 assured me — had died since the previous autumn, when 

 they numbered twenty-seven. I am able to give an illus- 

 tration of the above-named bull's head, from an original 

 drawing by Mr. Williams. Besides the wild cattle, 

 there are kept in the park seventy head of red deer and 

 about two hundred and fifty fallow deer. The only other 



fD^et, 



HEAD OP OLD BULL BELOXGING TO THE CHARTLEY HERD. 



animals grazed there are a few horses, and occasionally 

 a small and insignificant number of sheep. 



We arrived at the keeper's lodge, close to the park 

 gate, at the C hartley end of the park. King, the 

 keeper, an intelligent man, who had then been there 

 five years, showed us every attention, and introduced to 

 me a labourer, Greorge Whitton, who had worked in the 

 park for thirty years, who was a man of great observa- 

 tion, and from whom I got much information. We 

 entered the park at its south-eastern corner, just 

 opposite the keeper's lodge. A cart-track — it could 



