102 THE RED DEER OF EX MOOR. 



Queen was, and then leaning forward, he stabbed 

 him to the heart so that he fell dead at the Queen's 

 feet. 



The late Sir Emmerson Tennant, who hunted 

 Sambhur deer in Ceylon in the middle of the last 

 century, used a pack of small hounds with two or 

 three big savage dogs he called " seizers,"' who 

 sprang at the deer and held him, a needful pre- 

 caution when a man was usually single-handed. In 

 his interesting book he records how he had on some 

 occasions to receive a charge on the end of a big 

 hunting knife, luckily finding the weak spot in the 

 centre of the forehead, and splitting the skull. 



Many deer take to the sea, when, if the weather 

 permits it, a boat from Porlock Weir, Minehead, or 

 Watchet will put forth and effect the capture. The 

 brothers Pollard and their assistants in their white 

 boat from Porlock Weir take many a deer in the 

 season, and heavy indeed must be the sea when these 

 gallant fishermen will decline to go out. A sovereign 

 for a stag and ten shillings for a hind is the fee, and 

 well it is earned, for it often entails several hours' 

 hard work for six men. Still, the Porlock Weir 

 boatmen are a race of true sportsmen, and they look 

 more at what they consider the sport than what they 

 get by it. 



Between Porlock and Glenthorne the steep wooded 

 slope of the hills ends in a line of cliffs above the 

 rocky beach, but there are a good many places where 

 both deer, hounds, and men on foot can reach the 



