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out again. Master, hounds, and men were now familiar 

 with their work; and the season of 1858 was begun 

 with a very brilliant spring hind-hunting season, in- 

 cluding one run, probably the finest ever known, from 

 Cloutsham to Woody Bay, twenty-two miles as the 

 crow flies, in two hours and twenty minutes, without 

 a check from beginning to end. 



But before the stag-hunting began Mr. Bisset carried 

 out a project on which he had long set his heart, 

 nam.ely, the introduction of new blood into the herd. 

 With this view he procured, through a friend, two 

 stags, two male deer, and three hinds, from Mr. Legh 

 of Lyme, in Cheshire ; whereof one stag and two hinds 

 were turned into Haddon, and the remainder into 

 Horner. These deer were, however, of a different kind 

 to the natives, and met (so Mr. Bisset writes), one after 

 another, with disaster, while he himself met with con- 

 siderable blame for having turned out such bad-running 

 brutes among the "foresters." It may be worth 

 while here to record the fate (so far as it is known) of 

 these deer. The two hinds in Haddon were killed after 

 good runs in the spring seasons of 1859 and i860, and 

 the stag after a poor run in the autumn of the latter 

 year. Of those turned out in Horner one stag was 

 barbarously murdered by deer-stealers within three 



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