OF THE TAKING OF THE STAG. 105 



On one occasion a stag was drowned by the hounds 

 about a hundred yards from the beach near Rodney, 

 and Mr. George — there being no ladies present — 

 stripped and gallantly swum out to the body, which 

 was floating with the pack all round it, and towed it 

 in. He was presented with the head. 



Glenthorne House is situated at the bottom of a 

 deep combe on a little bit of comparatively flat ground 

 100 feet above the sea, and twice deer have rushed 

 down on to the tennis lawn in front of the house, and 

 fallen over the cliff on to the beach below. 



In 1884, after a very fast run from Culbone by way 

 of the Deer Park, a stag stood to bay against the 

 tennis net where Sovereign, who always ran at head, 

 dashed at him and drove him to the thin line of 

 bushes on the cliff's edge. Ere Arthur, who was 

 riding down the combe from the high land 1000 ft. 

 above as if he had a spare neck in each pocket, 

 could reach the spot they had disappeared, and 

 all he could do was to stop the rest of the pack. 



The stag and Sovereign and two others lay dead 

 on the beach. While Arthur, Mr. Turner, Mr. Chorley,. 

 and another were standing looking at the stag some 

 ten minutes afterwards, there was a whimper and a 

 rattle of stones, and a puppy faithfully running the 

 line fell with a thud, luckily only just touching 

 Mr Chorley's shoulder, and lighted fully on the 

 body of the stag. He lay apparently dead, but in 

 a few minutes got up and lay down in the edge of 

 the sea. Within a month he was hunting again. 



