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6 p.m., and beginning to get dusk. Tried all down the Haddeo, 

 without success ; only one stout heart left on reaching Clammer, who 

 was ready to bet any money the stag was then between the hounds 

 and Bury. Tried on, and had almost tried all the ground, when a 

 slight whimper showed that something was up, and in another second 

 the whole pack was in full chorus, and we had fresh found our deer. 

 It was now dark, but there was no chance of the deer leaving the 

 water, so we persevered. The stag, skirting a bit of Haddon Wood 

 on the way, beat the water to Hartford, then turning down again the 

 hounds hunted him backward and forward, he frequently foiling them 

 and making us fearful each time would be the last of it. Finally at 

 Clammer Water hounds came to a check, and we feared we had 

 hopelessly lost him. The hounds, however, found him in the deep 

 weir below, from which after turning twice or thrice at them he started 

 upward, and beating the water, hounds could hardly hunt him. Dr. 

 Collyns' horn in the distance was heard up the valley, and the pack 

 was taken to him. The deer was said to have been viewed by James 

 Gage at the ford into Haddon under Webber's Copse, two miles from 

 where the hounds had lost him. Perfectly incredible. Tried up the 

 water to the Bridge ; no find ; all sure it was perfectly impossible 

 for the deer to have come the distance in the time. Old Gage was 

 confident, and the water was tried again ; and within twenty yards ot 

 the ford the stag was again fresh found under some bushes in the 

 river. Hounds now never left him again ; ran him down to Clammer, 

 and killed him there by candlelight at 7.50. Seven hours from the 

 lay on ; the last hour and half entirely in the water and dark. Eight 

 only at the finish. 



1856. October \\th^ Cloutsham. — No stag has been yet killed on the 

 Forest, so though rather late in the season it was advisable if one 

 could be found to run him, and if possible kill him. Found in 

 HoUowcombe at once and laid on the pack on the ridge opposite 



