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down towards the sea. Here he stood for some time on a precipice 1859. 

 one hundred and fifty feet above the beach, then dropped on to a ledge 

 twenty feet below whence there was no return, and finally went out 

 over, and was of course killed. 



Babbage and his lot ran the younger stag up the Barle and over 

 Horsen and the deer park behind Emmett's, then back by Corn- 

 ham and Exehead to Blackpits, when he was taken and at once 

 released. 



May \th, Jury Kennel. — Found a male deer and a hind in i860. 

 Westhill Wood, but could do nothing with them, so after some time 

 went to Storridge Plantation, where found a single hind, which went 

 through Padwell Plantation to the Exe Valley. A hind of such a 

 sporting disposition was not to be dreamed of, and accordingly most 

 of the field pronounced it a male deer. Laid on some time behind 

 her at Barlynch Abbey. Ran up the bottom to Upper Stockham, 

 from whence she doubled back along the head of the cover to Exe 

 Cleeve, and down through Hele Wood to the drive ; through Rook 

 Wood, under the Park Farm enclosures, behind Ware and through 

 Puzzlecombe towards Exe Bridge ; leaving the bridge to the right 

 broke up over the high ground towards Morebath, and down the 

 valley to Dummet Water, following the stream till close to Bampton ; 

 leaving the town to the right crossed to the Batherham and Ford 

 Mill, and up over the hill. Here a check in the road. (Having got 

 thus far with what was so confidently asserted to be a hind, the wise- 

 acres now consoled the field by pronouncing it, by the slots, to be a 

 male deer.) Hit it off further down the road, and over Bampton 

 Down to the enclosures by Huntsham Court. Wretched scent ; 

 another check; hit it off again, and now a view of our deer crossing 

 an orchard before us. Ran her up through Huntsham Wood 

 and down the stream that skirts it (two miles or more) towards 

 Uploman. Turned away by Stagg's Mill and Fusselforc! into a deep 



