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through woodland after woodland, turning grad¬ 
ually to the left and toward the south. The 
scent seems catchy and uncertain, but there is 
no check until after another fifty minutes. 
Counting heads, thirty-six out of forty are still 
with the hounds. The fox is evidently tired 
and is using all his cunning to evade his pur¬ 
suers. He is trailed slowly, close to a pig-sty 
and through a barnyard, and then lost again 
near the ruins of an old house. Here the 
hounds work diligently, but for a time without 
success, when suddenly the fox jumps out from 
some place of refuge and away he scuds toward 
the Patuxent River, with the hounds tied to 
him. Our tired horses need urging, however 
small the fences. To the left in a circle the 
fox, now closely pressed, turns and is pulled 
down in the open after a two hours and forty 
minutes’ run with thirty-three of the forty riders 
in at the death. 
How often, after it is over, do we think of 
it. enjoy it, and talk of it. And even though 
the sport is not good, all days in the saddle 
are pleasant. To be out with hale companions, 
hunting across the brown hills, with jumps 
here and there, the pack in motion, and feel 
a good horse under you—for the young and the 
old, inexperienced and veterans, this is always 
a lasting pleasure.—Harper’s Weekly. 
DEER IN NEW ENGLAND. 
Rigidly enforced protective legislation in 
Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut has 
enabled deer which were fast becoming extinct, 
to multiply until they are now more numerous 
in Central New England than they were at the 
time of the Revolutionary War. 
The continuous stretch of more or less 
sparsely inhabited territory, with its abundant 
supply of small fruits and garden truck, so 
tempting to the deer, has become for practical 
purposes an immense deer preserve. A decade 
ago the summer visitor in New England rarely 
caught a glimpse of a wild deer. Five years 
later the deer had become more numerous, but 
were still an object of curiosity. In the last 
two seasons so numerous have the deer become 
that they have done much damage to gardens 
and orchards. 
The deer have become bolder with increased 
numbers, and the presence of One of the ani¬ 
mals in the streets of the larger towns and even 
the cities is frequently reported. Hunters have 
estimated that there are in Central New Eng¬ 
land upward of 10,000 deer. The fact that 2,000 
deer have been killed in a single week in each 
year in the last two open seasons in Vermont is 
evidence of the great numbers of them. 
A Springfield correspondent of the New York 
Times says that the deer question promises to 
be the subject of lively debate in the Legis¬ 
latures of Vermont, Massachusetts and Con¬ 
necticut. On the one hand the friends of the 
animals plead for a continuance of the present 
protective laws, on the ground that the dam¬ 
age done by deer is overestimated, and that the 
deer is harmless. 
Opposed to this argument is the contention 
of farmers that they should be allowed to kill 
for their own use deer found on their own land. 
In Vermont the open season tends to keep 
down the number of the animals, and in Massa¬ 
chusetts under a recently enacted law, the 
farmer may kill deer which commit depreda¬ 
tions upon his land. In Connecticut killing of 
deer to protect one’s property is allowable, 
provided it is done with a shotgun. 
The prevalence of deer has given rise to a 
crop of animal stories. From Northfield, Mass., 
recently there came a story of hens attacking 
a deer. Last week Sunday a buck deer gave 
battle to two dogs in Westfield, and according 
to witnesses the dogs came out a very poor 
second. Not very long ago a pure white deer 
was killed in Hadley, Mass. 
Ernest L. Merriam, of Ware, reported that 
while driving to West Warren a deer attempted 
to jump into his wagon. A Belchertown 
farmer driving to Ware this week found his 
progress barred by a buck deer. The farmer 
pelted the deer with apples and now seeks to re¬ 
cover the value of the apples from the County 
Commissioners under the deer damages com¬ 
pensation act. 
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