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from there to the Grange Park, to Candover, through Wield 

 and College Wood, Chawton Park, and Newton Common, and 

 she was then a quarter of an hour before the small pack. She 

 was seen by a man to go into Tring Down when it was quite 

 dusk. My hounds and horses were quite tired, so I whipped 

 off, and left her for another day. The distance was supposed 

 to be thirty miles by the way she ran." I may note, before 

 continuing Mr. JN'eviU's narrative, that there is no mention of 

 stopping hounds here, and the deer, in an almost natural state, 

 beat them. 



He continues, " Three weeks after, I heard of her again from 

 that noted sportsman, Mr. Edward Knight, of Chawton, and, 

 taking the same number of hounds, I found her in Bushy Lees, 

 and ran her at a racing pace for one hour. That good sportsman, 

 Mr. William CoUyer (who was especially fond of stag-hunting), 

 was out on that day, and well he went for an aged man, as he 

 Avas up at the take. The deer was running among some cows, and 

 the huntsman holloaed to a man to open the yard gate ; in 

 another instant she would have left the cows, and we should 

 not have taken her that day. I instantly got off my horse, and 

 went into the yard ; the moment I called to her, she instantly 

 came to me, and I had some difficulty in keeping her from 

 treading on my feet. Although she had been absent in a 

 wild state for six months, she followed me into a pen, and 

 would have followed me home, but I thought it too far." 



I had the luck to be out in this second run, which took place in 

 April, and over a very stiff line of country, so that the few who 

 Avere there, with no crowd to make gaps for them, and the fences 

 all newly done up, had their work cut out to live with the 

 hounds. I shall never forget the scene when Mr. JS'evill walked 

 into the yard and called the hind ; it was most unique, even to 

 myself, who had often witnessed his singular performances with 

 the fallow doe and other deer. Poor Princess had a narrow 

 escape, as, when taken, a bullet-mark of several inches was 

 found along her back, which had just grazed the skin. This, it 



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