18 DEER- STALKING. 



and scare even Mazeppa's steed. We extract from 

 Taylor's " Pennilesse Pilgrimage" the graphic ac- 

 count given of the Earl of Marr's famous hunt of 

 the red deer in the year 1618: "The manner 

 of the hunting is this : five or six hundred men 

 doe rise early in the morning, and they doe dis- 

 perse themselves various ways, and seven, eight, 

 or even ten miles compass they doe bring or chase 

 in the deer in many heards (two, three, or four 

 hundred in a heard) to such or such a place, as the 

 noblemen shall appoint them ; then, when the day is 

 come, the lords and gentlemen of their companies 

 doe ride or go to the said places, sometimes wading 

 up to the middles through bournes and rivers ; and 

 then, they being come to the place, doe lye down on 

 the ground till those foresaid scouts, which are called 

 the tinckell, doe bring down the deer; but as the 

 proverb says of a bad cook, so these tinckell-men doe 

 lick their own fingers; for besides their bows and 

 arrows which they carry with them, wee can hear now 

 and then a harquebusse going off, which they doe sel- 

 dom discharge in vain; then after we had stayed 

 three houres, or thereabouts, we might perceive the 

 deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads 

 making a show like a wood), which being followed close 

 by the tinckell, are chased down into the valley where 

 wee lay ; then all the valley on each side being way- 

 laid with a hundred couple of strong Irish grey- 

 hounds, they are let loose as occasion serves upon the 

 heard of deere, that with the dogs, gunnes, arrowes, 



