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of a pond, and takes it in his way to cool 

 himself by a plunge. 



Homer Wood is so large and difficult 

 that there is always much trouble in getting 

 the deer to quit it. Sometimes the hounds 

 divide, and follow two. A hind thus pur- 

 sued by a few hounds and hard pressed, 

 threw them off by crossing the stream, and 

 took refuge in the fern high up the hill. 

 But she had been observed by a runner; 

 he called the hounds, and with the greatest 

 difficulty climbed up over the loose stones. 

 He put them right on her ; she sprang from 

 the spot, overthrowing him in her wild haste, 

 but the hounds had the scent, and she was 

 taken. Sometimes a stag will not leave 

 Horner Water at all. On being roused he 

 goes to the stream and runs down it for 

 miles, out from the woodlands, through the 

 cultivated plain, right to the shore of 

 the Channel, and then to sea, never quit- 



