CHAPTER I. 



Introductory. 



The Chase as it appears to-day — A Galloping Camera — 

 How THE Tyro gets entered to the Sport — Where 

 THE Tripod fails — The Loneliness of Exmoor — 

 Asking the Way. 



The present work 

 is an attempt by- 

 col labor at ion of 

 the camera and the 

 pen, to reproduce 

 some of those de- 

 1 i g h t f u 1 scenes 

 which fall to the 

 lot of the favoured 

 few who pursue 

 the wild red deer 

 of West Somerset 

 and North Devon. 

 The classics of 

 staghunting on Exmoor, CoUyns' " Chase of the 

 Wild Red Deer," and "Fortescue on Staghunting," 

 have brought the general reader well acquainted 

 with the history and origin of this noble sport, 

 and the latter author's charming *' Story of a Red 



