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Title: The Story of a Red Deer

Author: J. W. Fortescue

Release Date: August 9, 2010 [EBook #33384]

Language: English

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THE STORY OF A RED DEER

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THE STORY OF A RED DEER

BY THE HON. J. W. FORTESCUE

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1897

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BUNGAY.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EPISTLE DEDICATORY v
CHAPTER I 1
CHAPTER II 11
CHAPTER III 24
CHAPTER IV 35
CHAPTER V 47
CHAPTER VI 63
CHAPTER VII 75
CHAPTER VIII 87
CHAPTER IX 103
CHAPTER X 117
CHAPTER XI 128

THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY.

_To_

_MR. HUGH FORTESCUE_,

_Honoured Sir_,

_When in the spring of this present year you asked of me that I should
write you a book, I was at the first not a little troubled; for of
making of many books there is no end, and of making of good books but
small beginning; and albeit there be many heroes of our noble county
of Devon, whose lives, if worthily written, might exceed in value all
other books (saving always those that are beyond price) that might be
placed in the hands of the youth thereof for instruction and example,
yet for such a task I deemed myself all too poorly fitted; for if men
would write books to be read of the young, they must write them, not
after particular study, but from the fulness and the overflowing of
their knowledge of such things as they have dwelt withal and felt and
loved beyond all others._

_So at the last I bethought me that there was no book that I could
more profitably write for you than the life of one of our own red
deer, which, as they be of the most beautiful of all creatures to the
eye, so be also the most worthy of study by the mind for their
sub