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1857. could not have been wished for than that as far as Haddon, and it is 

 doubtful if we changed there, for there was no appearance of a change. 

 If the same deer went to the end she was a wonderful creature. 



August 24/Z!, Sandyway. — No stag in Long Wood, so went 

 straight to Badgworthy, Found a single hind, laid on, and away to 

 the Lynton road and Farley Bottom and into the brake. Here hung 

 for some time in cover. Hind viewed in a cornfield on top ; doubled 

 back into cover and away to Badgworthy, and turned towards the 

 Warren. Here the hind, apparently much distressed, jumped up 

 under the fence, and made to the Exe ; down the combe, turned to 

 the right by the Gallon House and Sheardon Hutch towards Long 

 Wood, leaving Sandyway on the left. Then turned over Twitchen 

 Common again into the bottom by Sandyway, and on by Willingford 

 Water to Hawkridge. Last seen crossing Jekyll's enclosures in the 

 direction of North Barton. Not a soul with the hounds from fhe 

 fresh find on the Warren. 



September /s^t/i, Two Gates, Brendon Common. — Found a single 

 hind under Tomshill. Went away over Pinford Bog to the Lynton 

 road ; across the Chains by Exe Head to Mole's Chamber, turned to 

 the right over Showlsbarrow Castle by Challacombe to the Bray 

 Covers. Beat up the water, and after crossing the next range of 

 covers (Bratton) was finally taken in a small stream at Stoke Rivers, 

 about four miles from Barnstaple. Only four or five at the end. 



September \Zth, Cloutsham. — Bad slotting, hot day, and long 

 uncertain draw. Found a stagat^ 1.30 — a big 'un — who took a turn 

 over the hill, but almost immediately afterwards returned into cover 

 and started another in his place. This cunning old file was seen to 

 turn the other out and deliberately lie down in the very spot from 

 which he had roused him ; and though the other had moved away 

 towards the Forest, and a run was now a certainty, it was with some 



