OF QUADRUPEDS. 
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STAG. 
The Stag is one of those mild, innocent 
animals, which seem as if they were created 
solely to adorn and animate the solitude of 
the forests, and to occupy, remote from man, 
the peaceful retreats of nature. His light 
and elegant form; his flexible yet nervous 
limbs; his head, rather adorned, than armed 
with a living substance, which, like the 
branch of a tree, is every year renewed ; his 
grandeur, his swiftness and his strength, suf- 
ficiently distinguish him from the rest of the 
inhabitants of the forest. 
