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the pack on for one more season, which, unless sub- 

 scriptions increased, was to be positively the last. 



The spring hind-hunting was remarkably successful, 

 hinds being taken in five successive days, and the 

 sport with the stags during the autumn was extra- 

 ordinarily good ; but even so the prospect was any- 

 thing but cheerful. Six deer had been found dead 

 during the summer on different parts of the moor 

 between Dunkery and Badgworthy, and it was re- 

 ported that there was but one calf to be seen in the 

 whole of the Forest. Moreover, Mr. Bisset's tenancy 

 of Pixton came to an end, and, owing to want of 

 money, it seemed likely that his mastership would 

 come to an end also. Negotiations, indeed, were 

 actually set on foot to find a successor to him among 

 the leading landowners of the country. 



At this juncture, however, two gentlemen came 

 forward, and, by most timely and generous help, 

 averted the misfortune that seemed imminent. Mr. 

 Froude Bellew, who had from the first been mainly 

 instrumental in restoring the sport, placed his hunting 

 box at Rhyll, with stables and kennels, at Mr. Bisset's 

 disposal for the next three years at least. The Hon. 

 Mark Rolle, for some seasons past a subscriber, 

 though living forty miles away from the stag-hunting 



