APPENDIX A. 



[ The accounts of the following runs are taken, with some abridgment, from the 

 journals of Mr. Bisset and Lord Ebrington.'\ 



September 2Zth, Haddon. — The old stag had been famously har- 1855. 

 boured widi another by Blackmore in Huscombe Wood. The 

 tufters went in, and in one minute or less spoke ; and in a little 

 more time there broke from the cover in the grandest style one of 

 the finest stags that ever were seen. Upon being viewed across 

 Hartford Cleeve the pack was laid on at 12.50. Running through 

 Haddon Wood, the deer crossed through Bury Castle and Pixey 

 Copse, thence across Perry Meadows to New Bridge, and up througli 

 Ellas Wood ; across Combe and Gilmore to the Red Deer and on to 

 Spurway Mill. Here he was viewed about half a mile ahead in the 

 Iron Mill water. Upon reaching the Exe he turned up stream by 

 Oakford and Heightley (nearly two miles in the water) to Grant's, 

 whence he turned up across the turnpike road to High Cross by 

 Combe Head; where was a long check, scent becoming bad and 

 uncertain. Hit it off again over Birch Down to Morebath village, 

 where another long check ; scarcely able to hunt now at all. Still 

 persevered in hopes of fresh finding him in Haddon, which he was 

 now evidently making for ; went on over Birchleigh to South 

 Haddon, where nearly all the field pulled up, looking upon Haddon 

 as fatal to their sport. Two or three hounds carried the line, though 

 barely able to hold it, to Hadbarrow, under which our stag had been 

 viewed by Blackmore. Getting the body of the pack together, but 

 off the line again across the Mill path, and with much fresher scent, 

 went across the Cleeve to the river at a good pace ; time now nearly 



