Stag-htiiiting 



Gerard's, Mid-Kent, New Forest, Norwich, Lord 

 Rothschild's, and the Warnham I must refer 

 you to Baily's '^ Hunting Directory." Of the 

 Irish packs, the Co. Antrim and Templemore 

 hunt two days a week, and the Wards and Co. 

 Down three. An admirable work on this mag- 

 nificent sport is ^* Stag-hunting on Exmoor," by 

 Philip Evered (secretary of the pack), to be pro- 

 cured of Chatto & Windus, or the west country 

 publisher, Mr. J. G. Commin. Also that well- 

 known work, '' The Queen's Hounds, and Stag- 

 hunting Recollections," by Lord Ribblesdale, 

 Master of the Buckhounds, 1892-95. 



The type of horse seen out in late summer and 

 early autumn on Exmoor and the Quantocks has 

 improved year by year. Neither sun nor dust can 

 deter West Somerset folk when stag-hunting is 

 afoot. Where the going is good, it is hard, indeed, 

 for the master to obtain room for his pack to 

 puzzle out twists and turns of the quarry. Among 

 the very large field, indeed, who do Cloutsham 

 annually, you may see many M.F.H.'s free as yet 

 from cubbing, hunting-men from the Shires and 

 Midlands, a sprinkling of Americans — tourists. Yes, 

 and troopers in uniform have been known to put 

 in an appearance, not to speak of cyclists, pedes- 

 trians, motorists. On that day papas and mammas 

 fill carriages from friend Thristle's or the Luttrell 

 Arms. For many years there was the stout 



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