2i8 CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER 



September 30///. — The hounds met at Luckham ; the 

 tufters found under Stoke Pero Church ; the pack was 

 laid on on the Common, and ran him to Nutscale Brake ; 

 here he had loitered, and from this to Alderman's Burrow 

 it was very fast, the stag only just out of view ; he now 

 crossed Larkborough for Eongcombe, passed up it and 

 broke to the left for Honeymead Post, and thence to 

 Simonsbath ; he now took the river, and beat down it to 

 Sherdon Hutch ; a good respite this for the horses, but 

 it was of short duration. He waited for the hounds at 

 Sherdown, and broke from it in view over Ferneyball to 

 Crooked Post, from this to Sandyway and down over 

 Lyddons to Willingford water, went down the Danes- 

 brook to Lyshwell ; here we killed him after a fine run 

 of two hours and twenty-five minutes. It was a race 

 from Alderman's Burrow to the finish, with the exception 

 of the going down the river, from Simonsbath to Sher- 

 don Hutch, Out of a very large field, five only witnessed 

 the death of this fine six-year old deer. 



October i^th. — Found a hind in Burridge close to 

 Dulverton, ran her to Shercombe Slade, and up the valley 

 to Hawkridge ; here the pack changed on a brocket, 

 and ran him across the Moor to Longwood in North- 

 molton ; here again they changed on a hind, and brought 

 her back over Exmoor to Barton Wood in Hawkridge, 

 when she beat down the Barle river ; on casting the 

 hounds down the stream, they came on the hind 

 which had been roused in Burridge, and ran her down 

 through the coverts to Dulverton : she now backed it to 

 Marsh Bridge, at which place she was run into and killed. 

 This was a famous day's sport, notwithstanding the 

 weather ; a heavy rain all day, yet the scent was breast high. 



