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proceedings, as he it is we depend upon to find us a 

 ' ' runable " stag on this momentous occasion. Then, 

 whilst the large assemblage are picnicing and enjoying 

 themselves, a loud and protracted cheer announces 

 "the arrival on the scene of the royal visitor, who, 

 in a carriage-and-four, passed at slow pace along the 

 line of spectators, who, waving hats and handkerchiefs, 

 welcomed their Prince with loud huzzas. Accompanying 

 His Royal Highness was Prince Louis of Battenberg, 

 Mr. Luttrell, the Rev. John Russell (the octogenarian 

 sportsman, so well known and deeply respected in 

 these parts), and Lord Charles Beresford. After 

 leisurely passing through the line of lookers-on and 

 halting frequently, enabling all present to see him 

 'to advantage, the carriage moved on to the stables 

 of the hunt, where Mr. Prince, the stud-groom, was 

 in waiting with the Prince's two favourite hunters, 

 Cockney and Dashwood, who carried him safely over 

 flood and field during his visit to India. Then, His 

 Royal Highness having mounted, Arthur Head, with 

 three couple of tufters, proceeded to draw for a stag 

 in Lord Lovelace's beautiful covert, which runs down 

 in the direction of the seashore. The view from this 

 point was lovely in the extreme ; across the Channel 

 was the Welsh coast, seemingly basking in the bril- 

 liant and welcome sunshine which favoured us this day j 

 "before us was Bossington Point, a bluff, bold head- 

 land, overlooking Porlock Bay; to the right the grand 

 heather-clad hill of Dunkery; and on the hillsides, 

 and upon every " coign of vantage/' a serried host of 

 -spectators. 



Ere long the horn of the huntsman is heard on the 

 -j there is a quickened movement on the part of the 



