A HIND 

 IN RICHMOND PARK 



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Richmond Park — Red deer — An adventure with a hind eating 

 acorns — Watching a listening hind — Senses in dog and deer 

 compared — Senses and instinct in wild and domestic animals 

 — ^Man and beast compared — The hind divides her listening 

 sense in two parts — The trumpet ear and the ear trumpet — 

 Strange case of a deaf lady listening through an ear trumpet 

 to a sermon. 



OCCASIONALLY when in London I visit Rich- 

 mond Park to refresh myself with its woods 

 and waters abounding in wild life, and its wide 

 stretches of grass and bracken. It is the bird life that 

 attracts me most, for it is a varied one although so 

 near to the metropolis, and there are here at least two 

 of England's few remaining great birds — the great 

 crested grebe and the heron. The mammals are of 

 less account, but I have met here with at least two 

 adventures with the red deer which are worth 

 recording. Stags are aloof and dignified, if not hostile 

 in their manner, which prevents one from becoming 

 intimate with them. When walking alone late on a 

 misty October or November evening I listen to their 

 roaring and restrain my curiosity. A strange and 

 formidable sound ! Is it a love-chant or a battle-cry ? 



