1871 — i88i. 73 



them with relays of hounds — a system which it has 

 been necessary to continue ever since. 



In 1873, once again three deer were killed in a day ; 

 and in 1874, for the first time, two stags were fairly 

 accounted for on a single day. On the 24th of April, 

 1874, Mr. Bisset killed his first stag from the Bray 

 covers, taking him under the railway viaduct in Castle 

 Hill deer park. A train passed over the viaduct just 

 as the deer was brought to bay ; a circumstance noted 

 with horror by Mr. Bisset, as " a clashing of two dis- 

 tinct ages, indicating but too surely what must be ere 

 long — the ancient occupant of the primeval forest 

 being trampled under by the Juggernaut representative 

 of advancing civilisation." 



In 1875 the Bray country came still more promi- 

 nently to the front. For the first time since the sale of 

 the old pack two deer crossed the Forest between 

 Bray and Porlock, the one being killed in Hole Water 

 the other at Poole Bridge, after two of the finest runs 

 since the restoration. On three days a brace of stags 

 were fairly killed, and during the hind-hunting season 

 no fewer than four deer were killed in one day from 

 Cloutsham. The year, however, brought as usual its 

 death-roll. Mr. Henry Dene, of Barnstaple, known 

 all over the country from Taunton to Launceston, as 



