CHAPTER X. 



Remarkable Heads — The Record Weight — Souvenirs 

 OF the Chase — Taking a Stag — The Severn Sea — 

 Beacon Fires — Horner Mill Wheel — Venison^ 

 The Rutting Season — Crippled Deer — Slotting — 

 Warrantable or Otherwise — North Hill — Black 

 Game. 



Under many 

 a roof in West 

 Somerset and 

 North Devon- 

 shire are to be 

 found hand- 

 some trophies 

 of the chase 

 in the shape 

 of the spread- 

 ing antlers of 

 bygone mon- 

 archs of the 

 wood and 

 moor that have 

 been taken 

 with hounds. 

 In former 

 vears it was 

 a not uncommon practice to gild the extreme 

 tips of particularly fine pairs of horns, and 



