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allowed half an hour's law. Fresh finding him 

 in Whiterocks, they chased him merrily all 

 down the Barle Valley and across to the Exe, 

 and here roused him from soil again. At the 

 Haddeo hounds checked, but the stag was 

 viewed stealing away from Haddon Wood, and 

 after twenty minutes' pretty water hunting under 

 the Deer Park, he was taken at Steart Cottage. 

 This remarkable stag stood before hounds for 

 three hours after the lav on, in spite of his 

 great size, eleven score and seven pounds clean 

 weight, minus head and slots. He was a perfect 

 fourteen pointer, with the velvet still on, of 

 course, but the points were hardened under- 

 neath the velvety covering. His head measured 

 as follows : — Height, 3oin. ; length round curve 

 of near horn, 35in. ; spread at fork, outside to 

 inside, 29in. ; curve of brow antlers, i4jin. ; girth 

 of beam, yin. A very line head for the British 

 Islands. 



Seldom has the chase been better seen on 

 the opening day by the multitude assembled on 

 Cloutsham Ball than it was on August 7th, 

 1895, the first year of Mr. Sanders' mastership. 

 The run itself lasted onlv about an hour, but 

 the stag, in his doubles, led hounds and field 

 to and fro in sight of the farm, to the great 

 delight of the foot and carriage folk, who 

 moved from field to field on the Cloutsham 

 Ridge, and kept the Hunt in view for some time. 



