THE RED DEER. 
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° crown or to private individuals, from 
cC one is selected for the purposes of the 
and, being generally conveyed in a co- 
.^^®d cart to a place appointed for the meet- 
S of the sportsmen, he is pursued by them 
horseback, with dogs of a particular breed, 
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^^d stag-hounds. As it is the object of the 
,^*^ntsnian to preserve the stag from the dogs, 
not unusual to hunt the same animal 
^fal times, a practice which cannot but be 
omned as cruel, renewing as it must. 
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time in the tormented animal all the 
^^^ies of anticipated death. 
. ’t 1814 Windsor Forest, which extended 
Jl^j seventeen parishes, was disafforested, 
districts of it were full of deer. Part 
the forest w'as allotted to the crown for a 
h ’ and part given to the parishes as a com- 
Nation for certain rights which they had 
^^^ayed. The people of the district, as soon 
tt^a bill for enclosing it had received the 
