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Badgworthy Cottage, but knows its way to the 

 Deerpark inclosure, excepting perhaps the denizens 

 of Winsford Hill or the Minehead coverts, and 

 very little pressing is required to send a Bray- 

 ford stag, or one from Wistland Pound, across 

 the southern or western heights of the moor,, 

 to take refuge amongst the numerous herd 

 alwavs to be found in the sanctuary. Every 

 here and there the feet of the combes that 

 debouch on Badgworthy Water are guarded by 

 small rockv kopjes, and the one at the bottom 

 of Lankcombe facing the main Deerpark planta- 

 tion is crowned with oaken coppice. Few scenes 

 are more romantic than the narrow green glade 

 between this natural tumulus and the fringe of 

 Badgworthy Wood, with its scrubby growth 

 untrimmed by the hand of man. Here the 

 bright, quickly moving figures of the chase find 

 an appropriate setting amongst the tall banks 

 of heath, with rocks and coppice and a tumbling 

 stream that falls from pool to pool towards the 

 Water Slide, where a rustic foot bridge enables 

 pedestrians to cross dry shod while the hunting 

 path goes through the limpid stream. 



Happy is the huntsman who has got his stag 

 well away up the line of Lankcombe, if he has 

 only frightened him enough to ensure that he 

 shall not return to his comrades in the Deer- 

 park, but will go away forthwith to Farley Water 

 or Brendon Two Gates. Then there is almost 



