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Title: King Edward VII. as a sportsman
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas, 1849-1922
Subjects: Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910 Horses Sports -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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riginalbreed of the deer was, as has been said, German,and therefore larger than the English. Next, theanimals have an immense range of forest wherein toroam at large, plenty of good food, and freedom attheir will both from the hand of man and from thehardships of winter. Again, it is significant that thefinest heads always come from the limestone country,which is so favourable to the formation of bone.Lastly, there seems to be something magical aboutNew Zealand which makes every imported creaturegrow and thrive, at any rate for a time, with amazingvigour. The English brook-trout, which in a similarstream in England would weigh from four ouncesto a pound, average in New Zealand from one poundto five or even eight ; while in the larger riversand lakes they increase without an effort to ten,fifteen, and even to five-and-thirty pounds. More-over, now that they have taken to the salmonichabit of going down annually to the sea, they bidfair to convert themselves in due time into salmon, 90
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Windsor and then there is no saying to what monstrous pro-portions they may attain. But to return to our deer; grand though thetrophies are that have already been secured, it by nomeans follows that they are the grandest in the NewZealand forest. For the stock sprung from theancestors of Windsor is now increasing apace, and isspreading farther and farther over the North Island.This of course does not imply that they are in anyplace unduly thick on the ground. Any one familiarwith the habits of deer is aware of the secret ofthe red-deers wanderings. Some young stag growsweary during the love-season of being ousted fromall opportunities of courtship by his more powerfulseniors, so, denying himself the luxury of a harem,he elopes with a single hind as young as himself,and takes her away into a far country where theymay enjoy connubial felicity undisturbed. Youngcouples in this way wander away from Exmoor toDartmoor, to the Blackmoor Vale, and even to theNew Forest ; and in New Zealand th

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