PART II 



[The runs and incidents described in this part of the work took 

 place in and subsequently to the year 1827, in which year 

 the late Sir Arthur Chichester hunted the country. Sir 

 Arthur, as stated in Chapter V., gave up the hounds in the 

 spring of 1833; and from that time until 1837, there were 

 no hounds kept for the purpose of hunting the deer. From 

 the autumn of that year the sport has been continued year 

 after year ; and the reader will find, in the following pages, 

 a record of the best runs and most striking hunts connected 

 with the chase of the deer down to the autumn of the 

 present year.] 



April 1827. — Found a hind in the Haddon coverts ; 

 she broke by Upton Church, then by Venn House, the 

 seat of S. W. Blake, Esq. ; sought Brendon Hill, crossed 

 it, and took refuge in Leigh Cliffs ; she now crossed to 

 Nettlecombe, the seat of the late Sir John Trevelyan, 

 and beat down nearly to Williton, as if making for the 

 Bristol Channel, but turning to the right passed by Torr 

 Weston, and up over Whycombe, passing the house of 

 T. Luxton, Esq., then reached the Quantocks ; we ran 

 her to the coverts above Holford, and lost. 



September 20th, 1828. — Found in Smithypark Wood. 

 The tufters roused a brace of good stags, one went down 

 to Helebridge, the other passed over into Bulton Wood, 

 and lay fast in the covert ; the pack was laid on in the 

 first meadow below Buttonbridge, on the second deer ; 



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