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HUNTING THE STAG page 



Hunting the Deer in Olden Times . Thomas Miller 1 16 

 Sports and Pastimes of Merry England 



The Haunt of the Deer . . . Samuel ] . Looker 117 



Daw7t and Sunset Gold 



Old Towler ....... Anon. 117 



Anonymous \%th-century Hunting Song 



The Run .... Charles Folk Collyns n8 

 Notes on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer 



Sweet Echo Wakes her Mimic Song . . Anon. 120 



The Wolmer Forest . . Rev. Gilbert White 121 



The Natural History of Selborne 



The Wildgrave . . . .Sir Walter Scott 123 



The Wild Huntsman 



Mr. Jorrocks and the Surrey Staghounds R. S. Surtees 123 

 Jorrock's Jaunts 



From Hart-Leap Well . . William Wordsworth 127 



The Chase Begins . . . Thomas Miller 129 



Sports and Pastimes of Merry England 



The Chase Ends .... Thomas Miller 1^9 

 Sports and Pastimes of Merry England 



The Chase is O'er . ..... Anon. 131 



WRITERS ON HUNTING 



Nimrod (C. J. Apperley) . . G. F. Underhill 132 



A Century of English Fox-Hunting 



The Druid (Henry Hall Dixon) Hon, Francis Laivley 133 

 The Life and Times of the Druid 



R. S. Surtees . .... Samuel J . Looker 136 



Whyte-Melville . . . . G. F. Underhill 136 



A Century of English Fox-Hunting 



Egerton-Warburton 



Me^noir Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell^ Bart. 138 



THE POETRY OF HUNTING 

 The Hunting of the Stag . . Michael Drayton 140 



A-Hunting We will Go . . . Henry Fielding 142 



