CHAPTER V. 



1861— 1871. 



The season of 1861 was marked by the removal of the 

 pack from Jury kennel to Rhyll, and by the shortest 

 season known since 1855. In all there were but 

 twenty-eight hunting days, wherein eleven deer were 

 taken, of which nine were killed, four stags and five 

 hinds. In November, however, Mr. Bisset succeeded 

 in carrying a point for which he had been striving 

 ever since the beginning of his mastership, viz. the 

 preservation of the deer for hunting on the Ouantock 

 Hills. There were at first considerable difficulties in 

 the way ; but Lord Taunton, the chief landowner, 

 entered into Mr. Bisset' s plans for increasing the very 

 scanty stock of deer on those hills; and fromj the 

 year 1862 onward young deer captured before the 

 hounds on the Exmoor side of the country were from 

 time to time transported to the Ouantocks and there 

 turned out. 



