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THE RED DEER. 
body of the highlanders was : they had 
thing for it but to throw themselves flat 
the heath, and to allow the deer to pass oV^^ 
them. It was told the queen that several ^ 
the highlanders had been wounded, and tb»* 
two or three had been killed outright ; and 
whole body had got off had not the hig^ 
landers, by their skill in hunting, fallen up° 
lOl' 
' •' — 
a stratagem to cut off the rear from the 
bod3^ It was of those that had been sep^' 
rated that the queen’s dogs and those of 
nobility made slaughter. 
There were kill^*^ 
that day three hundred and sixty deer, 
five wolves and some roes.’ 
With the progress of civilization and 
cultural improvement, the number of red 
in Great Britain has gradually diminish®^' 
In England, during the last century, numero'^’ 
forests formerly stocked with red and otb^' 
deer, were enclosed, so that the animals 
now to be found only in the parks belong^’*’ 
