OF HUNTING A STAG. 93 



a stag breaking away from one of the coverts near 

 Hole Water, and turned him back at once. A few 

 minutes afterwards he went up the hillside again, and 

 successfully passed through a cornfield where two 

 reaping machines were at work with their attendant 

 men and dogs, all of whom ran and made all the noise 

 they were capable of, but he had by that time made 

 up his mind where he was going, and nothing could 

 stop him. 



It is next door to useless to ride at a deer to turn 

 him away from a line on which he has set his mind, 

 though one has seen a deer ridden off from joining a 

 herd. A single person riding ahead of the deer in 

 the direction he is going will probably divert him, as 

 his natural caution forbids him to follow anyone, but 

 all the shouting, whip-cracking, and galloping of a 

 hundred horsemen will not stop a stag going where 

 he has made up his mind to go. 



