424 The Natural History of Selborne 



harboured ; but though the huntsmen drew Hartley Wood and 

 Long Coppice, and Shrubwood, and Temple Hangers, and in their 

 way back Hartley and Wardleham 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 Hartley 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. 



