CHAPTER VIII. 



Anecdotes and Incidents connected with Deer-hunting — Deer driven 

 to Sea and carried away by Crews of Trading Vessels — Deaths of 

 Deer by leaping over Cliffs — Remarks on hunting 'Carted' Deer 

 — Powers of Endurance of the Wild Deer as compared with the 

 * Stall-fed' Deer — Conclusion. 



Courteous reader ! who hast followed me so far, to 

 you I announce the fact that I take up my pen to 

 jot down a few more last words ere I close my 

 narrative. In an Appendix to this little work, I 

 have given an outline of several celebrated chases 

 which occurred in our country, many of which will 

 be remembered by brother sportsmen of the West, 

 while many took place so long ago, that the good 

 men and true who witnessed them are long since 

 gone to their last repose ; some in stately mauso- 

 leum, adorned with 'marble urns,' some in their 

 ' narrow cells ' in the village churchyard. There 

 they sleep, peer and peasant, rich and poor. They 

 were linked in life, however different in degree, by 

 a bond of fellowship which a noble and exciting 

 sport in their own merrie England cemented. The 



