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runs. The run which I propose to narrate lasted 

 seven hours, only eight horsemen were up at the 

 finish, the last hour and a half was run entirely in 

 the water and dark, and finally hounds killed their 

 stag by candlelight. Space demands that I should 

 abbreviate the details of the run. The stag had 

 been harboured in Huscombe Wood, Haddon, and 

 the pack was laid on at 12.50 as he was being 

 viewed across Hartford Cleeve. The quarry then 

 led hounds through Haddon Wood, Bury Castle, 

 Pixey Copse, Perry Meadows, New Bridge, Ellas 

 Wood, Combe, Gilmore, up to Spurway Mill, where 

 he was viewed half a mile ahead in Iron Mill Water. 

 On reaching the Exe he turned up stream by Oak- 

 ford and Heightley to Grant's — two miles in the 

 water — and then crossed the turnpike road to High 

 Cross, where scent became uncertain, but was hit 

 off over Birch Down to Morebath Village, where it 

 again failed; but two or three hounds managed to 

 carry the line to Hadbarrow, and the pack being 

 got together, hounds raced across the Cleeve to the 

 river — time, 5.45 p.m. After this it was almost 

 entirely river work. The stag beat the water to 

 Hartford, and for some minutes was lost at Clammer 

 Water, till he was viewed at the ford under Webber's 

 Copse, a distance of two miles from where the 

 hounds had lost him. Hounds then ran, or swam, 

 him down to Clammer, and killed him at 7.50 p.m. 

 by candlelight. A shorter, though in some respects 

 a more noteworthy run took place with the Exmoor 



