Far Away And Long Ago A History Of My Early Life By W. H. Hudson








































































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we saw a troop of seven or eight deer in an open green space among the - Page 97
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About Half-Way Home We Saw A Troop Of Seven Or Eight Deer In An Open Green Space Among The

Big grey thistle-bushes, but instead of uttering their whistling alarm-cry and making off at our approach they remained

At the same spot, although we passed within forty yards of them. The troop was composed of two bucks engaged in a furious fight, and five or six does walking round and round the two fighters. The bucks kept their heads so low down that their noses were almost touching the ground, while with their horns locked together they pushed violently, and from time to time one would succeed in forcing the other ten or twenty feet back. Then a pause, then another violent push, then with horns still together they would move sideways, round and round, and so on until we left them behind and lost sight of them.

This spectacle greatly excited us at the time and was vividly recalled several months afterwards when one of our gaucho neighbours told us of a curious thing he had just seen. He had been out on that cardoon- covered spot where we had seen the fighting deer, and at that very spot in the little green space he had come upon the skeletons of two deer with their horns interlocked.

Tragedies of this kind in the wild animal world have often been recorded, but they are exceedingly rare on the pampas, as the smooth few-pronged antlers of the native deer, _corvus campestris_, are not so liable to get hopelessly locked as in many other species.

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