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down to Marsh Wood, and by Ballneck and Loosehall, 

 reached Court Down before they could be stopped. They 

 were trotted back to Whiterocks, where the stag was last 

 seen. He had loitered here, and they fresh found him. 

 He broke on to the common by Pykes, and continued it 

 to Thunderball, and then down the coverts to Burridge 

 Wood. He waited here for them, and they viewed him 

 to Dulverton bridge. He kept the water to Newbridge, 



Bury Bridge. 



and did not leave the Barle until its junction with the 

 Exe (thus beating the water nearly three miles). He 

 now turned up the Exe, and broke from it into Pixey 

 copse, and came again to water under Bury Wood. The 

 hounds came to a check on nearing Bury village, and 

 after casting up and down the water, winded him as he 

 lay under a hayrick. They viewed him through the 

 village to Birchwood, and went up nearly to Clammer, 



