40 STAGHUNTING WITH THE 



to animation as he gallops over the roughly 

 carpeted ground to stop the tufters, while the 

 welkin rings with his piercing view halloa. Then 

 with a white handkerchief he signals across the 

 leafy depths of the East Water combe to the 

 master, Anthonv joins him on the hillside to 

 wait by the panting tufters until Mr. Sanders 

 brings the pack and its following multitude, and 

 then when due law has been allowed, and the 

 great hounds have taken up the scent and are 

 streaming awav over the purple slopes of Dun- 

 kerv, he drops back to the tail of the Hunt to 

 bring on straggling and timid hounds, so that 

 as manv of the pack as mav be shall be in at 

 the death of their noble quarrv. Of the run 

 itself, of the checks and turns, of the stratagems 

 of the stag, of the thousand and one incidents 

 which befall in the hurrv and rush of some two 

 or three hundred horsemen and horsewomen 

 over a wide extent of rough water-worn Jiillside 

 and moorland, subsequent chapters and their 

 accompanving photographic studies must tell. 

 Let us pass on to the last scene but one in the 

 day's drama, when the gallant stag finds himself 

 at last outwitted and outpaced, and betakes 

 himself to his last refuge — the biggest water 

 he can find. 



At this time of year, the second Tuesdav in 

 August, the moorland streams are small and 

 shrunken, Horner water or Badgworthv are 



