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hunting them. I went all over Exmoor a 

 short time since on foot in order to see the 

 deer for myself, and in addition I had the 

 advantage of getting full information from the 

 huntsman himself, and from others who have 

 watched the deer for twenty years past. The 

 chase of the wild stag is a bit out of the life 

 of the fifteenth century brought down to our 

 own times. Nothing has ever interested me 

 so much, and I contemplate going down again. 

 In addition, there are a number of Somerset 

 poaching tricks which were explained to me 

 by gamekeepers and by a landowner there, 

 besides a few curious superstitions. There 

 seem to be no books about the deer I mean 

 the wild deer. A book called ' Colly er's 

 Chase of the Wild Red Deer ' was published 

 many years ago, but is not now to be had. 7 ' 



" Red Deer " was brought out by Longmans 

 in 1884. 



In December, 1883, he offers " The Dewy 

 Morn." The proposal came to nothing. The 

 book was published in the following year by 

 Messrs. Chapman and Hall. In February, 1884 

 he speaks of a letter written to him by Lord 



