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Cloutsham Ball. Ran him round the south side of Dunkery, and over 

 the Common to Larkbarrow and the North Forest. Here the stag 

 was seen to start a hind and lie fast. The pack ran the hind over 

 Badgworthy and Brendon Commons to water under Brendon Church. 

 (Very fast to this point. Sixty-five minutes from the lay on.) From 

 this she beat down the water nearly to Watersmeet, and then turned 

 up over the Common to Countisbury. The hounds ran her down to 

 the sea and then round the chffs for some time, till finding them 

 drawing too closely round her in some furze where she lay fast, she 

 jumped up in the middle of them, went over the cliffs, and was 

 smashed to pieces. Four hounds which were on her haunches were 

 pulled over the edge, but miraculously saved themselves by some 

 ledge, a few feet from the top. This was decidedly the fastest thing 

 of the season. 



May \th, Slowly Wood. — Speedily found a hind, which contrary 1857. 

 to custom broke out over the top of the hill for Longwood. Laid on 

 the pack and ran into Longwood, where a long check among some 

 thousand sheep. News was brought that the deer had been viewed 

 half an hour before going towards Avill Wood. Hit off the line by 

 the new stone fence and carried on a cold scent over the heath to 

 the oak coppice, where they fresh found her. Skirting the western 

 side of Blackhill she went through Slowly down the water into Lang- 

 ridge Wood ; then up by the slate quarries and Treborough Church, 

 over Brendon Hill, through Cornish's farm, and across Holworthy 

 Bottom, into Westhill Wood. Down the water, through Hartford 

 Cleeve into Haddon, but almost immediately crossed the valley to 

 Storridge, and kept on through Butter Ball and Swine's Cleeve 

 to the Exe Valley ; thence over Court Down to the Barle, all up 

 the bottom from New Invention to Ashway Hat, and as daylight 

 was beginning to wane and only two or three horses up it was 

 thought advisable to stop the hounds on Ashway Side. A finer run 



