Page:Letters from England.djvu/56

 be fastened inside a skin which had been sewn on to a still larger beast. Enough now, I have enumerated enough of this; I wish to see nothing more.

But as on that occasion I was unable to draw stags from memory, I hastened into Richmond Park where there are whole herds of them. They come up close to people, without the least fuss, and they show a preference for vegetarians. Though it is quite a difficult task to catch stags, I succeeded in drawing a whole flock. Behind them a courting couple were lingering in the grass; I did not include them in my picture, for what they were doing is done by lovers in our country also, but not publicly.

I got covered with sweat in the tropic greenhouses at Kew amongst palms, lianes