OF 8BLB0BNE. 
31 
red (leer of Wolmer ever known to haunt the thickets or 
glades of The Holt/ 
At present the deer of The Holt are much thinned and 
TALLOW DEER. 
reduced by the night-hunters, who perpetually harass them 
in spite of the efforts of numerous keepers, and the severe 
penalties that have been put in force against them as often 
^ Mr. Bennett has pointed out that there could scarcely be two situ- 
ations more dissimilar than The Holt and Wolmer Forest. The Holt 
is on the gault, and has all the richness of meadow and nobleness of oak 
wood that distinguish that formation. It consequently offered to the 
fallow deer, while they remained on it, plentiful grazing, abundance of 
browzing, and open and sheltered glades ; advantages suited to the 
habits of that half domesticated race, introduced into this country by 
man, and still requiring at his hands care and protection. Wolmer 
Forest, on the lean and hungry sand, scarcely affords any grass, and has 
no high covert ; and the red deer attached to it would have been limited 
for their provender almost exclusively to the lichens, the heath tops, 
and the twigs of the very few stunted bushes that occur here and there 
on its surface : retirement could only have been obtained for them by 
plunging into the unfrequented hollows interposed between its ridges. 
The more tender and exotic deer was placed, and it might have seemed 
almost naturally, in the richer and more sheltered forest of The Holt ; 
the hardier and native race subsisted on the coarse fare of the dreary 
and cheerless waste of Wolmer. — Eu. 
