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THE RED DEER. 
and upon this large tract, neither man, 
child, sheep, or oxen, are allowed to trespa®*’ 
with the exception of those parties who 
permitted to partake of the mysteries of de®*” 
stalking.” 
A stock of from forty to fifty red deer ’j 
generally kept, in addition to the herd 
fallow deer, in Richmond Park. Some of 
stags are selected every year to be hunted 
the King’s stag-hounds. When a stag, 
has been hunted for three or four season^ ’’ 
returned to the park to end his days the’'^' 
he is generally more fierce and dangei'^'’^ 
than any of the others at a particular 
son of the year, when it is sometimes 
ijflt 
safe to approach them ; insomuch that 
i¥ 
keepers when attacked by them have 
bee” 
obliged to fire at them with buck-shot. 
attribute this ferocity to the circumstance 
the deer having been much handled, and 
sequently rendered more familiar with, 
