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round his paddock, trying to discover which part of him is most hurt 
by the crack. For perhaps a week he is lop-sided, and then, forgetting 
his awkward plight, he will bang impetuously into something, and, just 
when he does not expect it, off comes the other horn. Now he knows 
he is utterly helpless, and any foe that comes his way can have him at 
his mercy by reason of his defencelessness. His doe knows it too. 
While he is monarch of all, she is as meek a wife as any animal ever 
had, but later she has a revenge many a wife would like to get. She 
now punishes any domestic defection mercilessly. When he angers her, 
she rises on her hind feet, and thrashes him severely with her front ones, 
as she bites mouthfuls of hair and skin from his aching sides. It is 
while his horns are off that the fawns are born, and, before he grows 
them hard enough to use as weapons of offence, the young have grown 
sufficiently to be able to defend themselves against any sudden outburst 
of anger. At this time, too, he has an uneasy conscience about acts 
done in the full flush of his power, and, when a keeper enters his grounds, 
he bolts off to the lower end. When he is again in the pride of strength, 
he will dispute possession with the keeper, and frequently shows fight, if 
he deems it inconvenient for the man to enter his domain. 
SCOTLAND FOR EVER. 
The big Indian Barrasingha deer is the most bellicose of them all. 
Once a man had just tipped up a dray-full of gravel in a paddock in 
which there were several does and one magnificent buck. He was driv- 
ing the horse and cart back along a gully, about three feet deep, that 
traversed this place, when the buck suddenly attacked the vehicle and 
sent horse, cart and driver upside down into the gully. The man who 
was spreading out the gravel rushed to the defence of the driver, but not 
in time to save him from the fury of the deer, which drove its horn 
through the fleshy part of his leg, permanently laming him. There 
was a gigantic Scotchman in another part of the grounds, and he hastened 
to the help of his injured comrade. He also was attacked by the frenzied 
animal, but he managed to catch it firmly by the antlers, and a terrific 
struggle between man and beast resulted in the giant slowly forcing the 
deer’s head down and down until he sent the antlers into the soft earth. 
He held them there, in spite of all the animal’s exertions to free' him- 
self, until more help came and the other men were removed from danger, 
the cart was righted, and the frightened horse was led out into less exciting 
surroundings. 
