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it more extraordinary is, that, on being paunched, 

 a calf was taken from her almost able to stand. 

 The fence was a stone wall, with a rail on the top 

 of it, not to be broken ; and your readers may 

 judge of its height from the following statement, 

 having had no other means of measuring it : My 

 own height is five feet nine inches ; the horse I 

 rode is fifteen hands two inches high ; the top of 

 the fence was upwards of two feet above the crown 

 of my hat as I sat on my horse ; and it was up a 

 steep bank that she approached it. The stag we 

 ran went up to this fence, but did not attempt to 

 leap it." 



We now dismiss the subject of stag-hunting 

 with the remark, that although, from the adverse 

 circumstances attending it in a country like Great 

 Britain, so generally free from large tracts of wood- 

 lands, which the red-deer delights in, and also so 

 much intersected with streams, real stag-hunting 

 can never be again reckoned amongst the popular 

 diversions in England, a good substitute for it is 

 found in the turning out deer before fox-hounds in 

 the neighbourhood of the metropolis, which has the 

 advantage of afibrding a certainty of something in 

 the shape of a run, and frequently very long ones, 

 to persons whose time is precious, as well as the 

 opportunity of, in a great measure, selecting the 

 country best suited to the habits and propensities 

 of the game. There are a number of stag-hunting 

 establishments in England, and there has been a 

 royal establishment of this nature throughout seve- 

 ral successive reigns. In that of George III., stag- 



