and in this manner they were brought out of Yorkshire 

 to Hampton Court. 



The late Lord Oxford did many eccentric things, and 

 among them was his driving four red-deer stags in a 

 phaeton, instead of horses. These he reduced to 

 perfect discipline, for his excursions and short journeys 

 on the road. Unhappily for him, however, on one 

 occasion, the ears of his singular steeds were saluted by 

 the cry of a pack of hounds, which soon after crossing 

 the road in the rear, caught scent of them, and 

 commenced a new kind of pursuit. In vain did his 

 lordship exert all his charioteering skill, and his 

 grooms endeavour to ride before the stags ; reins, 

 trammels, and the weight of the carriage were of no 

 eifect, for they went with amazing swiftness. They had 

 often been driven before to the Ram Inn, at New- 

 market, and it was well for them and their driver, that 

 this was now at hand. Into the yard they suddenly 

 bounded, to the great consternation of all the persons it 

 contained. Here they were overpowered, and the stags, 

 the phaeton, and his lordship, were instantaneously 

 huddled together in a barn, just as the hounds appeared 

 in full cry at the gate. We conclude that his lordship 

 did not again expose himself to a similar chase. 



Delacroix leads us to suppose that the stag is capable 



