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It is not far from Hurlstone Point, on the 

 sunburnt sheepwalks near East Myne, that a 

 great outbreak of sheep kiUing by the pack 

 took place in recent years, and caused the 

 earlv demise of many promising young hounds. 

 On the sHppery precipices between Henners- 

 combe and Grexv there was absohitely no 

 scope for the intervention of the hunt servants 

 and a long wait in kennel had previously 

 rendered the puppies fit for treason, strategy 

 and spoil, when as ill luck would have it, on 

 being taken out to try for their stag, a flock 

 of horned sheep bounded through their midst, 

 just where control w^as impossible. The ill 

 effect of this outbreak was subsequently felt in 

 the course of the great and famous run from 

 Hawkridge to Glenthorne, when a part of the 

 pack turned aside from the hot pursuit of 

 their hunted deer, and on Cheriton Ridge, 

 after twelve miles of galloping, turned their 

 attention to mutton. If special pains were not 

 taken in the summer training of the young 

 hounds such offences would probably be of 

 annual occurrence, but owing to sedulous care 

 it is onlv on the very rarest occasions that 

 sheep-killing shows itself, and then condemna- 

 tion is the onlv possible verdict for the hound 

 that has been found guilty. 



Hurlstone Point is best seen towards sun- 

 down when the western rays slanting low and 



