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they have shown for many seasons over a wild, rough 

 country. This reheved the Exford pack from having 

 to deal with the deer in the big Stoodley woodlands, 

 and in the Eggesford district, both situated so far 

 from the kennels as to necessitate hounds lying out 

 overnight. 



The herd on the Quantocks also received particular 

 attention, and Mr. Amory was asked occasionally to 

 assist there also, for the number of deer was so 

 utterly out of proportion to the extent of wild country 

 available for them as to render their immediate 

 reduction imperatively necessary. For several 

 seasons both Mr. Sanders and Mr. Amory devoted 

 all the time they could spare to the Quantocks, but 

 both had their hands full, and more than full, nearer 

 home, and in 1900 Mr. E. A. V. Stanley, of Quantock 

 Lodge, offered to get together a pack expressly to 

 hunt the Quantock Hills. How completely out of 

 hand the herd on that small range of hills had 

 become is best shown by the fact that it took 

 Mr. Stanley five years' hard work, hunting steadily 

 two days a week, to reduce it to its proper numbers. 



Mr. Sanders also found it necessary to increase the 

 number of hunting days, and during hindhunting 

 hounds went out four days a week, Mr. Sanders 

 carrying the horn on two days himself. 



The deer in the Barnstaple country were causing 

 much anxiety, as they were spreading far and wide. 

 The difficulty of dealing with them was great, because 

 some of the most important coverts, in the centre of 



