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stag, they still have another point of four miles 

 and a-half to cover, and the mighty gorge of 

 the Lyn to sink and rise, which the stag, as 

 straight as the contour of the ground will let 

 him, makes in five miles and a-half. This makes 

 the two points of the run total up to twenty 

 miles and a-half, and the distance covered 

 amounts to twenty-four and a-half, which w4th 

 some backward and forward turns at the finish 

 might with safety be called twenty-five miles 

 and be well under the mark. Hounds drive 

 him unaided round the giddy heights of Lyn 

 Cleave and Myrtleberry to Barton Wood, and 

 he is viewed climbing Countisbury Common by 

 Ducombe Wells with quarter of an hour's start. 

 Anthony lays on afresh, Mr. R. H. Fry driving 

 past at the moment, and hounds stream away 

 as if they had only just begun, Down by 

 Desolate they go, and so straight along a green 

 path on the cliff which brings them to Glen- 

 thorne. Here they race him to and fro ; he 

 tries the back door of the house, and presently 

 with a rush goes right over the cliff, to be 

 picked up stone dead on the beach below, and 

 the two-year-old Guardsman with him. 



On September 14th, 1849, a stag was hunted 

 from Hawkridge to Glenthorne and there taken 

 and saved, a curious coincidence of date. The 

 only run of recent years which can at all 

 compare with this is that from Leeworthy Post 



