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British Deer and their Homs 
on the boil the mass of periodical literature. A favourite habit of these self-constituted critics 
is to cram down our throats the supreme joys and qualities of the chase and its surround- 
The upper figure shows a good royal of the present day, which, however, does not compare very favourably with the grand specimen beneath it. 
The latter, a 15 -pointer, is an ideal Scotch head of fifty years ago. 
ings as it existed fifty years ago, to the deprecation of the modern methods. “ Everything,” 
one will say, “ relating to sport has deteriorated. Look at Scotch stags’ heads, for instance ; 
what are they now? Hardly worth hanging on one’s walls as trophies.” 
