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meet, and when the deer was uncarted he needed 

 no hustHng but went off straight as a die, and no 

 sign or trace of him was discovered till some days 

 after, when he was found in the Wells harrier 

 country. The poor beast had no doubt been 

 frightened to death by the unaccustomed jolting 

 of his conveyance. 



Among those who were usually to be seen with 

 the bloodhounds at this time, beside those I have 

 already mentioned, were the Hon. Mrs Bertie, 

 old Lord Digby, the Hon. Theresa Digby, Mr 

 Cavendish Bentinck, the Hon. G. Arundell, Mr 

 Kyrle Chapman, who was killed under Doncliffe 

 some years later when out with Lord Portman's 

 hounds, Mr Grant Dalton, Mr and Miss Surtees, 

 Captain Mervyn Medlycott, known as " The Com- 

 modore," General Glyn, Mr T. Bullock — now 

 Chafyn - Grove — Mr Barton, Colonel Everett, 

 M.F.H. (South Wilts), Mr George Gordon, Mr 

 Sands, who was killed in Botten Bow, Major 

 Bogle, Mr Porteous, Mr O'Kelly, Mr Percy 

 Wyndham, the Comte de Montagnac, the Bev. 

 W. Portman, Mr Dendy, Major Borthwick, Major 

 Astell, Major Fryer (Carabineers), Sir W. Clay, 

 Mr Carr Glyn, Lord Howth, Mr Knatchbull, 

 and among the farmers Parry of Fisherton, 

 Worthy, Chisman, and Wiltshire. Old Mr Digby 

 used to come out driving, and managed to see 

 most of what was going on. It was in 1876 

 that a black horse, ridden by Mr Surtees till 

 it was more than twenty years old, dropped 



