lOO Hark Away. 



close to the Dulverton Road. The hind went back 

 into cover, but being rattled about by the tufters, 

 breaks again, crossing the Dulverton Road, going 

 for Haddon. Then I gallop through the farm-yard, 

 see her going into the cover, and await Arthur, 

 who speedily comes with the pack, which is laid on 

 to her track ; but the scent being indifferent, the 

 young hounds were rather slow in picking it up ; 

 at last they got ou good terms with the hind, and 

 rattled her about through the dense woods, driving 

 her first in the direction of the open tract of land 

 lying around King's Brompton. Then she suddenly 

 doubles back, and descends into the valley of the 

 Exe, running down stream at a tremendous bat, 

 trying to baffle her pursuers by taking to the 

 water, but the hounds are not to be baffled, and 

 dash at her, knocking her over. Then, recover- 

 ing her legs, she goes away at a racing pace 

 over Leigh Barron, going in the direction of 

 Morebath ; then, taking again to the water, it is 

 soon made too hot to hold her, and she makes for 

 a small cover, where she is killed, after running 

 from first to last for three hours and a-half. When 

 the hind doubled back and made for the valley, 

 I was at the top of the cover, and thinking to be 

 clever, I followed a farmer, who proposed very 

 kindly to show me the way ; and he did so, and a 

 strange way, in fact I may say a tall way, it was. 

 Straight down the slope of the almost perpendicular 

 hill he rode, occasionally going by a side path, 

 but certainly for half, or more than half the distance, 

 as straight as a die. Now, I estimate that the 

 height of the hill down which he was kind enough 



