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to better advantage or more wholly fit in with the 

 nature of the spot. For wild deer hunting is 

 of all our English field sports the most romantic 

 and the one that appeals with most effect to the 

 poetic side of those upon whom grand scenery 

 and colouring and beautiful sounds have an 

 influence. To many no doubt of an average 

 field the aesthetic enjoyment of some particu- 

 larly happy grouping of the moving figures of 

 the chase is of small moment, but to those to 

 whom it is given to see natural beauties, and to 

 hear melodies in the tumbling of the surf on 

 the rock bound coast, or to feel the difierence 

 between a well pitched halloa, echoing from 

 the depths of a combe and the same words 

 uttered unmusicallv, there is endless enter- 

 tainment in staghunting, especially if the skies 

 be propitious. From afar one may distinguish 

 in the depths of leafy Horner the well-known 

 voice of some habitual staghunter who views 

 the deer, and from afar one may tell bv the 

 different tone of the huntsman's horn what he 

 wishes to convey. 



The stones of Dunkery's Graveyard are 

 reproduced on a smaller scale on the bold 

 weather beaten top of Croydon Hill that 

 overlooks the villages of Timberscombe and 

 Luxborough. A scanty growth of heath for 

 many a century had hidden the litter of loose 

 boulders that now stand revealed, owin^ to 



