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in fact the limited charge of the angry stag at the owner of the 

 voice whenever he moved. On nearing the cart John drowned 

 all other noise in the following address to me : — 



" Master ! master ! come on and take yer rewenge ! I've 

 heerd as youVe been struck, and I've got the feller what did it. 

 Here a is," he cried, stamping in triumph on the top of the 

 cart, "along with the stag, and the stag's been a butting on 

 him, terrible ! I'll uncart him, and you whop 'un well." 



^Vhile John made this speech, I could see the man's mouth 

 at one of the air-holes of the cart, and hear him begging for 

 fo]-giveness, and taking the most solemn oaths that he had 

 never touched me, every now and then the staggering, bolting 

 sound of the butting deer cutting short his sentences. Hax-ing 

 ordered the bargeman's release, out tumbled a great stout 

 fellow the picture of woe, inducted to the open air by John 

 with the following words : " Come, my fine feller, it's your turn 

 to be hunted now ! " — John's face radiant with the delightful 

 idea of the " pitching in " as he termed it, that he thought was 

 about to take place. I looked the man over, but not having 

 had much time to identify any of the offenders, it was im- 

 possible for me to tell whether he had struck me or not, so to 

 John's great disappointment, who said I should "never have 

 such a chance of rewenge again," I bid the fellow go about his 

 business. On asking John how he got the man in, he said, 

 " Oh ! he was werry busy among 'em " ; and while they were 

 lifting the stag into the cart, this man had got in to pull at his 

 horns, so John closed the door, and went off at speed, the jolt- 

 ing of the cart, and the noise made by so many people, effect- 

 ually drowning the shouts of the terrified prisoner, who, John 

 said, " kicked up a deuce of a nise, and roared at fust like 

 mad." 



While the hounds were at a check near Heston, Mr. Henry 

 Wombwell, tawny coat and all, was assaulted by a farmer's 

 man thus. He was sitting by the side of a fence, beyond which 

 was a deep fall or " drop," and, I think, speaking to a hound, 

 when all at once the man came behind him with a heavy top 



