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WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS chap, xxiii 
is upon a par with shooting a hare. It is common 
throughout Europe and Western Asia. 
There are great varieties of small deer throughout 
the world, some of w 7 hich are too insignificant for 
description, as I endeavour in this work to exhibit 
the characters and peculiarities of such animals as 
are generally accepted by the sportsman as attractive 
game. It is therefore a relief to take leave of the 
insignificant roe, and to cross the Atlantic, where 
we shall find the red-deer of Europe transformed 
by the favourable conditions of the country and its 
fattening pasturage into the gigantic wapiti (Cervus 
Canadensis). 
