344 THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



he appeared to go quite sound. During hind 

 hunting he was seen, in company with five other stags, 

 to cross from Wynne Corner towards Haddon Farm, 

 but he could not get over the big bank, and fell back, 

 whereupon two of the stags came back and, crossing 

 their antlers behind him, shoved him up on to the 

 bank, and the herd all went away together. It was 

 at Haddon, too, that a sta.g, hard pressed by the 

 hounds, found a fresh deer lying in the heather, and 

 tried to turn him out, a liberty which the latter 

 resented, and the two engaged in mortal combat till 

 the hounds were almost on them. 



