292 CHASE OF THE WILD RED DEER 



for the parish of Stoke Rivers, where she was run into, 

 after a chase of three hours, and killed. Every hound 

 at the death. 



Mr. John Parmenter of Bratton Fleming improvised 

 the following lines descriptive of this chase, and I insert 

 them, as I think they reflect credit on the poetical taste 

 and skill of the good yeoman : — 



' The morning saw the hind repair, 

 With watchful eye, to seek her lair ; 

 The noonday marked her graceful bounds 

 Across the hills before the hounds ; 

 The evening sighed to see the eye 

 Of that poor beast in agony : 

 When run to weariness, the pack. 

 In rival fury, pull'd her back 

 Amid " Whoo-whoops " that frequent broke 

 Adown the sylvan glades of Stoke.' 



SepteDiber ^th. — Jury Kennel the meet for this day's 

 sport, and a good stag was roused in Padwells. He at 

 first crossed for Saddleback, and then to water on the 

 Haddeo, and at Clammer left it for Haddon Wood, 

 which he kept to Harford Cleave, and then by Windball 

 and Baker's Castle crossed above Steart into Westhill 

 Wood, and then through the coverts to Upton planta- 

 tion ; he now backed it over Upton farm again for 

 the upper part of Westhill Wood ; waited for a short 

 time, but hearing the tufters coming on, he broke for 

 Hollery farm, and crossed it for Ditchmoor ; the tufters 

 were stopped on breaking from Westhill Wood, and it 

 was nearly an hour before the pack could be sent for 

 and brought to lay on him. They ran him to Cophole 

 farm, and then over Castle and Swansea farms in the 

 parish of Withiel, on to Brendon Hill, and crossed the 



