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and left direct for Martinhoe Common, and bid defiance 

 to the hounds by descending the cliff and going to sea ; 

 only four sportsmen, with old John Beale the huntsman, 

 at the finish. 



October \st. — A good run this day. The fixture was 

 Dulverton, and the pack was moved to Harford, when 

 the old stag which had been tried for in vain on the 27th 

 ult. was roused in Upton Wood ; he at once left the 

 covert, and passing close by the church, went straight away 

 by Four Chimneys for Littledown ; now turned to the 

 left, passed over Cophole farm in King's Brompton.. and 

 paid a visit to Mr. Lyddons, at Withiel, on his way to 

 Brendon Hill ; he now crossed Treborough Common, 

 then turned to the left, beat the coverts almost to 

 Chargot Lodge, but turning up the valley again, reached 

 Brendon Hill, and crossed it on to Ouarme Common, and 

 then over the Ouarme estate, and soiled in the stream 

 below. The tufters, which could not be stopped, were 

 here caught by the pack. Left the Quarme for Upcot, 

 in Winsford, and going over Furzehill, soiled in the Exe 

 just above Winsford Parsonage ; he beat up stream for 

 a mile, and broke from it on the right for Staddon Hill, 

 as if making for the Horner coverts, but turning short to 

 the left again, sought the Exe by Lyncombe farm ; broke 

 from it for Courthill, as if making Exmoor his point, but 

 on reaching the road leading from Exford to Withy- 

 poole, backed it into a field of standing corn, passed 

 through it, and lay fast in a fir plantation close by. A 

 check of three parts of an hour now occurred, which no 

 doubt saved his life ; they eventually hit him, and fresh 

 found him in the plantation ; he again faced the hill and 

 crossed the road from Exford, and going over Chibbet, 



