266 CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER 



September 25///, 1840. — The fixture, Brendon Barton, 

 near Lynmouth. After tufting Brendon Wood a stag 

 with one horn broke for Parsonage Wood ; the pack was 

 laid on, and divided in all directions, having met with a 

 large herd of deer in the wood. Three or four couples 

 were seen going at their best pace up the bottom from 

 Farley brake on to the forest, and in over the Chains for 

 Moles Chamber ; these were followed by those sportsmen 

 fond of a gallop (no matter after what), and were lost by 

 them near Combemartin, the hounds running mute from 

 the pace. This deer, it was afterwards ascertained, went 

 to sea. Other parts of the pack ran from Brendon to 

 Badgworthy and back several times, and five or six 

 deer were seen all but run up ; one stag was known to 

 have broken for Countisbury with a few hounds on him ; 

 he was set up on the rocks between the Foreland and 

 Glenthorne, but it was impossible for the hounds to reach 

 him. Old ' Pilgrim,' and others, had marked him for their 

 own, and would not leave him. On some of the field 

 making their appearance, the stag moved off, and then 

 getting on slippery rock fell over the cliffs and killed 

 himself; fortunately no hound followed him. The tide 

 was up, and he was carried out to sea for a considerable 

 distance, and the boat sent out to secure him arrived just 

 in time to save him from the hands of those on board a 

 smack going up Channel, who had all but reached him ; 

 last year at this very spot two leading hounds went out 

 over this rock after a deer, and were killed, and the late 

 Sir A. Chichester lost two of his best hounds in like 

 manner, 



September zyd, 1841. — On this day the meet was at 

 Anstey Burrows ; but from the state of the weather, 



