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recent years to Badgworthy and Exehead, thence to 

 Prayway and Simonsbath, passing Cornham, and over 

 Filedon Ridge to Longwood below Yard Down. 

 Here he was fresh found and was killed below the 

 mines at North Molton. The deer is stated in the 

 diary of Parson Boyse to have been twenty years old, 

 and was known to have been a good stag in 1775. 

 He had all his rights, with seven on the top of one 

 horn and six on the other. A picture of the head, 

 which is in the possession of Sir Thomas Dyke 

 Acland, will be found in Dr. Collyns's " Chase of 

 the Wild Red Deer." This run is remarkable for 

 the fact that hounds were stopped for two hours in 

 the middle of the run, owing to a very severe 

 thunderstorm. 



In 1789 a good stag gave a very fast gallop from 

 Yealscombe, in Horner, to Badgworthy, and over 

 Brendon Common to Barberick Mill, being taken at 

 Lilford Bridge. 



On April 24th, 1849, hounds had a flying run 

 from Sweet Tree after a hind, taking her just about 

 Watersmeet in one hour and five minutes, a distance 

 of somewhere about thirteen miles in a straight line. 

 This is said to have been one of the fastest runs on 

 record, and it is easy to believe it. 



In 1 891 the writer had the good fortune to 

 accompany Miles when he harboured a good stag 

 in the wood just below Stoke Pero Church. There 

 were three stags lying there ; the tufters acknow- 

 ledged the line where one of the stags had come in 



