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or old, whether the weather was broiling hot or wet 

 and stormy, and whether there was a scent or whether 

 there was not. 



There was little or no scent when Mr. Sanders 

 hunted a young stag with most exemplary patience 

 throughout a blazing hot day — 88 degrees in the 

 shade — from Dunkery and killed him after six hours 

 at Oare Ford ; there was a first-rate scent when he 

 ran a heavy four on top deer from Lillescombe to 

 Emmet's Grange, and back to Cornham. All the 

 notions we had previously acquired as to scent and 

 as to the run of the deer were thrown to the winds. 

 Deer faced the open moor with a boldness they had 

 not shown for years. Wheddon Cross and Dunkery 

 Hill Gate are not favourite meets, yet drawing 

 Bincombe we had three first-class runs, one to Scob 

 Hill, one to Rowbarrow Farm, near Clat worthy, on 

 the far side of the Brendon Hills, and the third by 

 Alderman's Barrow to Oare Ford and the Parks at 

 Porlock. Two Haddon deer went to Tarr Steps, 

 one to Couple Ham, and one to Bradleigh, Cruwys 

 Morchard. We hunted two Bray Valley deer; one 

 went to Sandiway, Cuzzicombe, Molland, and Bish 

 Mill, the other right over the moor to Porlock village. 

 Four deer from Yearnor Moor and Cloutsham crossed 

 the Barle at Driver, one before Mr. Stanley's merry 

 pack. 



A Dunster deer, carrying a curious head, four on 

 top on one side and an upright on the other, beat us 

 by Upton. Twice Mr. Stanley ran over the same 



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