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bottom and broke from it into Oaktrough Wood and 

 made for Cutcombe ; she was eventually run into and 

 killed just below Cutcombe Church, on dry ground (a 

 very unusual circumstance). This chase was run in a 

 perfect hurricane, wind north-east ; it lasted three hours, 

 during the greater part of which the hind faced the wind, 

 and appeared to take no notice of it. I have often 

 observed that deer pay no attention to the wind, and are 

 found to run against it more frequently than with it ; the 

 scent at the commencement of this run was breast high, 

 but during its progress it became quite the reverse, until 

 we got into the Timberscombe valley, where it improved. 

 August 23;'^, 1843. — On this day a herd of deer were 

 roused on Badgworthy Common, and made direct for 

 the Brendon coverts ; the pack viewed and broke away on 

 them, and it was a grand sight to witness them coursing 

 the deer ; in about half an hour after reaching the covert, 

 an old stag was observed to quit, passing over Scobhill, as 

 if returning to Badgworthy ; as soon as eight or ten 

 couple of hounds could be stopped and got together, they 

 were laid on his track ; ran him to Badgworthy Wood ; 

 he now broke from it on to Oare Common, crossing it as if 

 making for the Culbone coverts,but on reaching Oarewater, 

 he backed it again for Oare Common, and recrossed it to 

 Exmoor ; going up Longcombe, the pack came on a herd 

 of thirteen deer, most of them stags, which they ran to 

 Brendon. Some of the hounds were here stopped and 

 taken back into Longcombe ; they hit the scent above 

 where they had found the herd, showing that the run deer 

 must have left there ; and after a fine gallop of an hour 

 and ten minutes, he was run into and killed on the Badg- 

 worthy Water. A large field witnessed the greater part 



