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dead-beat at the top of Puckpits, and there he was 

 killed. Nor was this good day at an end now, for 

 a second buck was soon found, and killed after half 

 an hour s run. 



Since the death of the " May deer," which came a 

 fortnight later, I have not revisited the Forest, in 

 which I, nevertheless, always take an interest ; and 

 none the less that George Thursby, whom T remember 

 as a huntsman of harriers there, and who for a time 

 also hunted fox there, continues to show good sport 

 with his pack. 



He has been extraordinarily successful with red- 

 deer of late, having had two quite phenomenal runs 

 in 1912, the spring one with a stag, and the autumn 

 one with a hind. It is a dictum of Mr Gerald 

 Lascelles that the Forest is unsuited to red-deer 

 hunting ; and certainly in both the above cases the 

 field were quite beaten off; but they were very 

 fine runs. 



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