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CHAPTER X. 



Remarkable Heads — The Record Weig-ht — Souvenirs of 

 the Chase — Takings a Stag" — The Severn Sea — Beacon 

 Fires — Horner Mill Wheel — Venison — The Rutting 

 Season — Crippled Deer — Slotting — Warrantable or 

 Otherwise — North Hill — Black Game. 



CHAPTER XL 



On the Moor — Unkennelling — Kickers — Off at Last — The 

 Sounds of the Chase — The Deerpark — The Water Slide — 

 Awkward Paths — Point to Point Races. 



CHAPTER XII. 



Culbone Plain^The Deer Fence — Devices for Protecting- 

 Crops from Deer — Nig-ht Watching- — The Tiverton Stag-- 

 hounds — The Quantock Staghounds — The Barnstaple 

 Country — The Stowey Road — A Chase on the 

 Quantocks — Over the Cliffs — " Trugg- Rich" — The 

 Watchet Hind. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Increased Speed — Blanching a Stag — Slowley Wood — Kings- 

 bridg-e — The Mineral Railway — The Steart Stag- — Tame 

 Deer — Ways and Means — The Venison Feasts^ — Time- 

 Honoured Customs. 



