2SO DEER AND DEER PARKS. Ch. XI, 



(!Cto0 Brands fgriSte paJnmsil %t mttSt )&a«E : 

 %x6i f0ure abaunteriS fl&E iaS^ -^t be tnnH fiaur. 

 <MS jcxim EgjpeXtrS aiitt t^ienne s? mass iijim rail : 

 WSS^vct in ae 6e a flretc SucSe 5 ten sou all. 



In the second year, the female of the fallow-deer is called a /^, and in 

 the third, and afterwards, a doe. This is the Anglo-Saxon da. The word 

 fallow, it may be observed, describes the prevailing colour of the animal. 

 Anglo-Saxon falepe, which Somner translates helvus, gilvus, fallow 

 colour. 



' How does yoyxT fallow greyhound, Sir ? ' — Shakesfere. 



But it has been long used in contradistinction to the red deer or stag. 

 Thus Lord Clarendon wrote : — ' The king, who was excessively aflfected to 

 hunting, had a great desire to make a great park for red as well as fallow 

 deer, between Richmond and Hampton Court' 



The buck sheds his horns annually, towards the end of April and 

 beginning of May ; soon after which there spring up, from the same place 

 to which these had formerly adhered, two soft bumps covered with a velvet- 

 like down, which gradually push out in height till they attain their full 

 size, and suffer a succession of changes of the following nature.' 



During the early period of their growth nothing can be more soft and 

 tender than these are ; nor can anything exceed their sensibility at this 

 period of their growth, as evident by the great solicitude the animal dis- 

 plays to guard them then from every species of injury. The blood-vessels 

 at this time much abound in this tender organ ; and it is well known by 

 epicures that at this period, when properly dressed, it furnishes a most 

 delicate morsel of food.'' As it advances in growth, it acquires a firmer 

 consistence, the blood-vessels diminish in size, and become more rigid, till 



' The following description is from the 1st ing venison, 'Wyl Bucke His Testament. The 



vol. of Anderson's Recreations (London, 1799), Legacies palatably prepared for the Legatees.' 



p. 262. Pr. pr. at the Chiswick Press, 1827. 



• See for many curious old receipts for dress- 



