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deer take his jump from a cart. The last I saw, 

 after a short and unsatisfactory run, leapt from a 

 shelving bank, against which a cottage stood, on to 

 the thatched roof of the hovel, and feeling more 

 secure in that position than on the open, defied the 

 efforts of the field to dislodge him for more than half 

 an hour, at the expiration of which period he became 

 sensible to the punishment which the lash of the 

 hunting-whip inflicted, jumped down again, and 

 quickly surrendered himself to the captors. 



The following account of a freak of an uncarted 

 deer is given in the Sporting Magazine for 

 January 1825 : — 



'On the 31st of December, His Majesty's stag- 

 hounds had an excellent run of two hours. A 

 famous deer, which has often been hunted and 

 always afforded excellent sport, was turned out 

 at the Dolphin, near Slough, and after taking a 

 circuitous run of several miles, entered Colonel 

 Vyse's pack at Stoke, made for the house, and 

 after taking a survey round him, he very deliberately 

 began to ascend the grand stair-case, when he 

 was arrested in his progress and turned back, at 

 which he appeared much irritated, and on leaving 

 the house he furiously attacked two horses, one after 

 the other, which had come up with their riders ; one 



