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as it is called, a " stynt," the hunters on horseback 

 and on foot, in order of right, are to blow the " stynt." 



If the hart is " in great danger" — that is to say, 

 if there is a great chance of the pack changing on to 

 fresh deer — it is recommended that they should be 

 stopped, and the lymer sent for to run the true line 

 till they be past the danger. This play has been 

 tried in a modified form with the Devon and Somerset, 

 but the result was not as a rule a success ; the 

 pressure on the stag was relaxed, and he at once 

 joined other deer, or had time to betake him to 

 water and give a lot of trouble. At a check, when 

 the lymer even is in fault, " Every hunter that is 

 there ought to go some deal abroad, and see if he 

 can find the rights by vestying thereof, and everyone 

 that findeth it before the lymer had fallen it, should 

 recheat in the rights and blow a mote for the lymer.'* 

 One sees this constantly done at the present day, 

 only a halloa or the whistle — by those privileged to 

 carry one — is used to call up huntsman and hounds, 

 and many an occasion will come to the memory of 

 old staghunters when the sharp eyes of Miles, of 

 Mr. Froude Hancock, Mr. John Bawden, Mr. Charles 

 Glass, Mr. Clatworthy, and others have saved the 

 situation. Only in 1906 one of the best runs was 

 saved in this way by the whip finding the slot in the 

 road where the stag had turned on the hard road by 

 Lype, leaving hounds to change on to a hind which 

 was in his company. 



In the last resort is to be done what we do first, 



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