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expression, as soon as they began blacking, they 
were reduced to about fifty head, and so continued 
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decreasing till the time of the late Duke of Cum- 
berland. It is now more than thirty years ago 
that his highness sent down a huntsman and six 
yeomen prickers, in scarlet jackets laced with gold, 
attended by the stag-hounds, ordering them to take 
every deer in this forest alive, and to convey them 
in carts to Windsor. Inthe course of the summer 
they caught every stag, some of which showed ex- 
