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belonging to the late Dr. Palfreyman ; he was soon driven 

 from this, and taking the hill passed over Countisbury 

 Common for Coscombe ; and after running the woods 

 overhanging the Bristol Channel for twenty minutes, was 

 obliged to seek refuge in the sea from his staunch pur- 

 suers. A boat was soon got out from Mr. Halliday's, and 

 the deer was brought in and housed at that romantic spot 

 — Glenthorne. As he was only four years old, C. D. 

 Esdaile, Esq., who was with the hounds, judiciously 

 determined to save him, as he was not a warrantable 

 deer, with the hope that he might live to show another 

 good day's sport next year. This was as fine a run as 

 was ever remembered by the oldest sportsman, and the 

 pace, until the hounds reached Brendon Common, very 

 fast ; about half-a-dozen of the field lived to see Mills- 

 lade. This stag was never found again by the hounds, 

 and was, I fear, destroyed. 



April 20th, 1850.— Fixture at Dulverton. The pack 

 moved to Stockham. The tufters found a fine hind in 

 Execleave ; after a round through this and Stockham 

 coverts, she crossed the Exe river, and passed up through 

 Brockle Wood for the Haddon coverts ; beat up to 

 Harford, from this to the hill, and over it to Deer Park ; 

 then over Upton farm, passed close to the church for 

 Westhill Wood ; here she disturbed other deer, and the 

 pack divided ; she now backed it for Keenswood, then 

 through Storridge Wood to Lyncombe lakes ; and to 

 water below Clammer, where she was killed, much to the 

 gratification of the field, as well as the master of the 

 hounds. This run was three hours, most of it covert- 

 hunting ; the other part of the pack ran up their deer 

 also, but as it was a young male, he was of course, saved 

 and turned loose. 



