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THE RED DEER. 
royal assent, began to slaughter the deef' 
which they now regarded as common 
perty. 
“To save the remainder, a hunting was 
rected,” says the author of that most amusii’^’ 
work, ^'the Menageries,” who witnessed 
scene which he describes, “ upon a scale whi*"^ 
partook of the pomp of the old chivali'<^''* 
days. A regiment of horse-guards was 
dered out to drive the deer. Hundreds ^ 
horsemen assembled from all parts 
country ; and for several days every 
of that finely wooded district echoed, 
hound and horn, but with the trumpet sui|’ 
moning the cavalry to charge, or to heiW ''' 
the herds that were gathering in affright 
every quarter. Sometimes an old stag, 
more adventurous by the new terrors 
were about him, dashed through the lines ^ 
cavalry. The heavy tramp of the horse 
immediately heard behind the noiseless bo'^"^ 
of 
■ thick'* 
not w>*’ 
