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animals, such as deer and most wild beasts, which have 

 nothing like so much loose pendant skin about the head 

 and neck. Still, these heads were especially valuable on 

 account of their general character, their colour, and, 

 above all, their horns. 



Driving a mile and a half farther, to the keeper's 

 lodge at the corner of the park, we found that King 

 had made every preparation for us. In the paddock a 

 short distance within the park, where I had before seen 

 the two-year-old bull and the young calf, was one of the 

 old bulls, lately castrated on account of his extreme 

 pugnacity interfering (as was believed) with the fertility 

 of the herd ; he was the master bull, but the cows had 

 not bred to him satisfactorily. In the paddock with 

 him were, one cow, two or three yearling heifers, and a 

 few calves, from six to nine months old, all weaned, and 

 apparently put there for the purpose of weaning them 

 from their dams ; among these was the one I admired 

 in July. A yard, one side of which was open to this 

 paddock, was connected therewith, and in it at the time 

 the cattle were. A door in one of the sheds unlocked 

 by the keeper admitted us to the sight of them not 

 many yards from us. The bull was within ten yards 

 of us, and at first stood quite still, staring at us while 

 we looked at him. He soon, however, drew off to the 

 paddock, and the others followed him. There, through 

 the palings, we had a very good view of these two 

 adults and of the juniors of the herd. 



Nearly half a mile's walk took us across the low 

 hill, where we had seen the herd in July, to a wild and 

 low valley, in which is a large shedded yard where the 

 deer are fed, and open to it a paddock of about an acre. 

 Here the seniors of the herd were enclosed, and we 

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