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this season has not assumed its summer greenery, and has a 

 wild aspect ; there being many swamps fringed by alders, 

 and the grass being of a gray, coarse description. In the 

 open space there are fine thickets of woodland, from which 

 the red roe and fallow deer are viewing with jealousy the 

 approach of our party. As the wild cattle — perhaps in a 

 herd of a hundred— are lying quietly on a slope directly in 

 front of us, and as the suspicious deer are moving towards 

 the herd and might alarm the cattle, we are entreated to keep 

 quiet and steal quietly along a patch of newly-planted 

 larches, which shelters a shed where they are fed in, in the 

 winter season, with hay. We were fortunate to get within 

 about three hundred yards, and with the aid of our glasses 

 got a fine view of the herd : the calves lying in front of their 

 mothers, and the old bulls looking ugly enough customers to 

 meet at too close quarters. In this larch plantation there is 

 a paddock where any weakly calf may be placed, so as to 

 get a little more attention from the keeper. There was a 

 bull calf, ten months old, who afforded the company a capital 

 pantomime of the actions of the old animals. He was lying 

 at the far side of the enclosure when we approached, but im- 

 mediately roused himself, and gathering himself together, 

 made an advance with his head down and pawing the 

 ground, sending the soil over his back ; again lowering his 

 head and advancing in a menacing attitude, and coming 

 nearer and nearer as if to meet a coming foe, causing no 

 small amusement to the visitors. If he had been asked to 

 perform he could hardly have acted his part better. The 

 cows rear calves at all seasons, and should they be in- 

 cautiously disturbed, are apt, by their hurried movements,, 

 to injure their young. The colour of the adult animals is 

 invariably white, with a black muzzle, and sometimes a 

 black tip to the tail ; spotted calves are sometimes produced, 

 but are immediately converted into veal. The ears are red 

 inside, and for one-third outside also ; and it is said there is 

 a red streak between the muzzle and the nose. Their 



