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Countess of Carnarvon's woods all round him. 

 But even so, the good feeding of Slowley has 

 rendered him so fat and well liking that 

 the pace has been too much for him. 

 Instead of having strength left to climb to 

 Haddon Hill, where some friendly hind might 

 lead the eager hounds astray, he turns aside 

 into a convenient orchard and lies down in the 

 shelter of a ditch. Hounds overrun the mark, 

 but on casting back the huntsman presently 

 finds him, and his doom is quickly sealed. In 

 the narrow waters of the Haddeo he can make 

 no fight, no pool serves to set the hounds 

 a swimming while he stands his ground, and 

 before the field are well aware that the end 

 of the chase is so near, he has been seized 

 and despatched. 



Of all the queer places that hunted deer 

 have got into, the Roadwater roller mills was 

 one of the most dangerous and inconvenient 

 both to stag and hounds. Here a Slowley 

 stag gave some very anxious moments to his 

 captors, but by good fortune avoided the 

 machinery in motion, and passed on into a 

 stable where he was secured after an exciting 

 tussle. 



Another stag in the Slowley district, but 

 which had run from Cloutsham on an opening 

 day will be long remembered as having made 

 his way into the dining room of Steart 



