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instance, and this is gradually subdued into short gentle plaints or again 
raised accordingly as the buck hesitates or comes on. Of recent years the 
horns of Continental roe, except those of Southern Sweden, have deterior- 
ated greatly, probably owing to the great increase in the number of the 
animals. The average length of those of a good buck is not more than 9 inches. 
The sport of stalking roe with the rifle is not understood in the British 
Islands, and therefore I would strongly recommend any of my readers 
who love those pellucid early mornings with the rifle to take for a season 
one of the many roe shoots that are always to be let in Austria or Galicia 
during the summer months, and I do not think he will be disappointed. 
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