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Another stag, less fortunate in his jump, was 

 so beset by men and hounds, near the same 

 romantic spot, that he bounded over a road- 

 wall, and fell hundreds of feet, down into the 

 rocky Lynn, every bone in his body being 

 smashed by the fall. 



Again, Russell speaks of a deer which, after 

 a grand run from Badge worthy, went to sea 

 near Countisbury Church ; when a sloop bound 

 for Swansea fell in with him, the men of which 

 threw a rope over his antlers and carried him 

 captive into that port. Alas ! a week after- 

 wards, the noble animal is said to have suffered 

 the ignominy of being "uncarted" and turned 

 out before a Welsh pack of hounds. 



Nor was this act of piracy an exceptional 

 case. Russell, on another occasion, saw a hind 

 picked up by a fishing-smack in the face of all 

 the hunters, who, posted on the cliff above, 

 shouted and signalled in vain to the daring 

 thieves. The animal was carried to Pill, sold 

 there, and turned into venison. 



In the rough and imperfect sketch of Rus- 

 sell set forth in this memoir, his devotion to 

 the chase and its attendant mysteries has thus 

 far purposely formed its chief foreground ; but 

 there is another feature of his character which, 

 though not yet touched upon, is entitled to 

 equal prominence in the picture ; and that is, 

 his devotion to women and children. In a 



