Red deer. Natural history by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Red deer, Deer hunting
Publisher: London, New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and co.
Published: 1896-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

STAG-HUNTING

BY

THE VISCOUNT EBRINGTON

CHAPTER I

IN DAYS OF YORE

THE chase of the wild red deer, as practised in Devon and Somerset, is the only survival in England of a sport which was followed in earlier days in most countries in Europe, and which still has many devotee:; on the Continent. Books have been written on the subject from 1275 to this present time, and it is possible from them and from contemporary pictures to trace its development on both sides of the Channel for more than six hundred years.

Originally no doubt deer were hunted for food as much as for the pleasure of chasing them, so we find that for a considerable period nets and bows and arrows played as prominent a part in the chase as hounds. But these methods led to indiscriminate slaughter, and breeding hinds with young deer of both sexes were of necessity the most frequent victims of such attacks ; the superior cunning of the old stags and hinds—the very animals whose death

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