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PASSIONAL ZOOLOGY. 
intrisrues as that of the stas:. The buck will not run far from his 
own district, and his tricks are easily found out; they are limited 
to giving changes, and to taking the water as often as possible. 
There is a hunting proverb : The stitch for the boar, the shroud 
for the deer : to express that the antlers of the ten prong make 
wounds more mortal than the tusks of the old boar ; but the buck 
has very seldom illustrated its death by the energy of its despair. 
History says little of the power of its arms. The buck is a laborer 
of too easy stuff, and who does not reyolt enough against the bar- 
barity of his persecutors ; it must be Ii ish or Saxon blood that 
flows in his veins. 
I do not pardon him for yielding his juicy venison thus without 
a struggle to all the parasite agents of property and of adminis- 
tration (running dogs). The cowardice of the victims is the 
best justification of the executioners. 
THE ROEBUCK. 
The prettiest, the most rapid and most delicate of all our 
runners.' 
The roebuck is swifter than the stag, finer venison than the 
buck, as cunning as the hare. It possesses one virtue more than 
all these animals — coolness in danger. 
It has the mild look of the gazelle, the elegance of its stature 
and its lightness — it has only needed as sweet a name, to be sung 
like the gazelle by the poets. 
The roebuck is the emblem of tlie purest family afifections ; he 
loves his companion, and defends with energy bis conjugal hap- 
piness, but his flesh does not inflame with these amorous struggles, 
like that of the buck and the stag. Never has love taken with 
him as with the goat, the odor of sensuality and imcleanness. 
Afterward, the devotion he feels for his family does not render 
him selfish toward the rest of his race. No beast of our forests 
understands better than the roebuck, the principle of charity and 
solidarity. 
Persecuted by the dogs, he needs never, like the stag or the 
buck, to employ violence to make the change start. The change 
