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CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER 



August i2>th, 185 1. — The fixture Culbone. The tufters 

 soon found in Twitching Wood ; the pack was laid on 

 upon the hill, and ran at their best pace over Porlock and 

 Oare Commons to Badgworthy, and passed over Brendon 

 Common to Scobhill ; here the deer mixed with the herd, 

 and the hounds divided ; after an hour, ten or twelve 

 couple were got together and laid on a hind seen to go in 

 the direction of Badgworthy ; she waited here until the 

 hounds came to her ; broke over the common in view for 



Exford Bridge. 



Longcombe, backed it to Oare Common, then turning to 

 the right for Exford Common, crossed it and Porlock and 

 Stoke Pero Commons for Horner; here the pack was 

 stopped, the sportsmen having had quite enough. The 

 pace was such, from the fresh find in Badgworthy to 

 Horner, that it was with difficulty the fleetest horse could 

 get within a quarter of a mile of the hounds. 



September 30///. — Cloutsham, celebrated, and justly so, 

 as one of the best meets, was fixed for this day's sport. 

 The stag did not hang long in cover after being found by 



