156 British Deer and their Horns 
hoisted up three of the liveliest of the does and carried them to the deer cart in this manner 
without their offering to budge. 
At Eastwell the fallow deer are caught by dogs bred and trained for the purpose. They 
course the buck, and seizing the ears, hold him down till assistance arrives. 
Doubtless many animals are to a small extent interested and curious about music. 
Seals are particularly so, but then seals are about the most intelligent and sweet-natured 
creatures in existence. Thomas Bell, who wrote the British Quadrupeds , must have been 
either a great wag or absolutely devoid of any sense of humour. He seriously quotes the 
following from Playford’s Introduction to Music :—“Travelling some years since, I met in 
the road near Royston a herd of about twenty (bucks) following a bagpipe and violin. 
FALLOW BUCKS 
which, while the music played, went forward ; when it ceased they all stood still ; and in 
a like manner they were brought out of Yorkshire to Hampton Court.” That is all! 
However, he more or less explains himself by a dissertation on the tc poetical truth in the 
power of the lyre.” They had funny ways of spelling in those days. I am sure he must 
have been a rather jolly old professor too, for he goes on to tell of the wild joy with which 
his efforts on the flute were received by the cows and other animals. 
Here is an excellent picture of the light and dark spotted varieties. I had just shot 
these bucks when a young friend, Mr. Tom Wickham, who had recently commenced 
photography, came up and wished to take them. The time was evening, and the snap-shot 
fiend had only perpetrated about three horrors in his wicked life before this, so 1 had no 
hope that the result would be better than a Whistlerian nocturne. A day or two afterwards, 
however, he came in with this capital picture, and 1 do not think the best professional could 
have done better, for every hair can be seen. 
