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canons of staghunting were complied with by 

 trying back for the heavier deer said to be 

 harboured, but although Anthony spent much 

 valuable time in covert on foot, the big deer 

 was not forthcoming. 



There being no alternative deer harboured, 

 the pack was accordingly brought from Kings- 

 bridge, and at ten minutes to one o'clock, a 

 matter of fifty minutes after the deer had 

 broken covert, hounds were let go on the fields 

 adjoining Treborough Common. From one 

 fernv dingle to another, from combe to combe, 

 by rockv sheep paths and bv swampv spring 

 heads, hounds ran at a very considerable pace 

 considering the advantage held by their quarry. 

 Running round the contours of Treborough 

 Common thev came up to the furze-strewn 

 plain on top at last, and after various short 

 checks on ground foiled bv sheep, carried the 

 line to the Raleigh's Cross road and the 

 heathy commons on the Withiel side. While 

 hounds were slowly hunting the line, the stag 

 was viewed some distance ahead, sinking by 

 Sminhayes Corner to the Comberow Woods 

 that overhang Leigh Barton. Red Deer Land 

 is full of steep hills and deep gorges, but none 

 surely are deeper or steeper than the sides of 

 the combes adjoining the mineral incline which 

 falls from the highest point of the Brendon 

 Hills to the fertile red valleys of Roadwater 



