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haunted Harteley Wood for so long a time. Many 

 hundreds of people, horse and foot, attended the dogs 

 to see the deer unharboured ; but though the hunts- 

 men drew Harteley Wood, and Long Coppice, and 

 Shrubwood, and Temple Hangers, and, in their way 

 back, Harteley and Ward-le-ham Hangers, yet no 

 stag could be found. 



The royal pack, accustomed to have the deer 

 turned out before them, never drew the coverts with 

 any address and spirit, as many people that were 

 present observed ; and this remark the event has 

 proved to be a true one : for as a person was lately 

 pursuing a pheasant that was wing-broken, in Harte- 

 ley Wood, he stumbled upon the stag by accident, 

 and ran in upon him as he lay concealed amidst a 

 thick brake of brambles and bushes. WHITE. 



