The hunting grounds of the Old world, by 'The old shekarry', H.A.L.

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Página 11 - Crerer say, and it is doubtless true, that if you find a young fawn that has never followed its dam, and take it up and rub its back, and put your fingers in its mouth, it will follow you home for several miles ; but if it has once followed its dam for ever so small a space before you found it, it will never follow human being.
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