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STAGHUNTING ON EXMOOR. 



new. On the previous night, however, whether 

 by accident or intention, her prison doors 

 became unfastened, and mounting on a pile of 

 alabaster, which is obtained in profusion from 

 the neighbouring cliffs, she scaled the roof, 

 and made good her escape from the scene of 

 her troubles, and doubtless survived to attain 

 a hoarv old age. Excellent photographs were 

 obtained of this hind while in captivity, and 

 an ingenious use was made of one of the 

 negatives so obtained to depict the hind in the 

 act of escaping over the broken stable roof, 

 w^here her tread cracked several slates, and the 

 picture produced had every semblance of reality, 

 although the actual escape took place by night. 



