Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt: ... THE STAG. Cemis elaphus. Linn. PART FIRST. There is no habitant of our European forests so stately as the stag. His presence is majestic, and to behold him has given delight and been a cause for gladness from remotest time. And, because of his noble bearing and of the pleasure which kings and princes, and knights and ladies had in his pursuit, it was ordained that no ignoble hand should presume to wage war against him; such being a privilege reserved for the high and lordly only. And this, and his imposing mien, caused men in those lands where the forests were most thickly peopled with his race, to give him the distinguishing title of the "noble " stag: German Edel-hirsch. And a noble animal he is, and well deserves the high pre-eminence. And let the attendant circumstances be what they may, a thrill is felt when his form is suddenly caught sight of, moving through his woodland domain. Whether you are prepared for his approach, or whether he at once E stands before you and gazes steadfastly in great astonishment at you, the intruder, alike the emotion which you are sure to feel, and which will not be repressed. You are in the dark pine forest, where all is so lonely and still, and the tall firs with their monotonous form stand immovable. Nothing moves save the nickering shadows on the red trunks, and the sunbeam that comes slantingly in and hangs a great patch of light on a distant stem. It wavers and vanishes. Again it creeps in and lights up the shafts supporting the gloomy roof, and as you peer searchingly into the depth it seems there is a something reddish-brown out yonder in the distance. But there are many bars of light and great flakes of brightness, and a sort of net-work Hke sunbeams just there towards where you are looking; for the sun is sinki...
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