i88 STAGHUNTING ON EXMOOR. 



with the sun's rays from above, reflected from 

 the parched stones beneath, the short spiky 

 furze, and the strain of a four hours' hunt. Still 

 they toiled onward to where their stag awaited 

 them amid the tall fern in a tiny combe-head, 

 whence he made a hnal rush to the foot of 

 Luccombe Allers, and was immediately taken at 

 4,30. Distance, nearly twenty miles. Two long 

 tines on either top and all his rights. 



