CHAPTER VI. 



A Description of a Chase over Exmoor — Intended to illustrate different 

 Incidents commonly met with in a run with a Deer. 



A BRIGHT gleam at early morn in the month of 

 September wakes you from your slumbers. Your 

 thoughts * prospect,' as the Yankees would say, the 

 events of the day. You feel as if it were time to 

 rise, but the village church clock announces that it 

 is early yet, and that it is at least four hours before 

 you need be in the saddle. The gleam disappears, 

 and again you seek your pillow. Two hours after- 

 wards you are called. The day looks doubtful. 

 Light clouds are whirling in misty wreaths between 

 earth and heaven, and you begin to fear that the 

 ' moor ' will be shrouded in an impenetrable mist, 

 and the ' tufters ' will be idle for the day. Never 

 mind, let us hope for the best ; the pink* is donned, 

 breakfast despatched, and the Dulverton division 

 starts for Cloutsham. Many a merry story is told. 

 Many a merry peal of laughter proves that the 



* Since 1890 the members of the field have desisted from wearing 

 red coats. — L. J. B. 



