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August 30M, Larkb ARROW. — Fouiid six deer in Oare Common> 1861, 

 but could not separate them, so trotted off to Brendon Barton Wood. 

 Found a hind, which went down to Watersmeet, then up the valley 

 and over Scob Hill (where laid on the pack), Brendon Common, 

 Badgworthy, Trouthill, and Tomshill, to Oare Common, and on to 

 Blackbarrow ; then short to the left to Wear Water, and back over 

 Oare Common to Badgworthy Water and down to Malsmead. Fresh 

 found her, and run her up to the top of Badgworthy Wood, down again 

 to water and killed her. Two hours and five minutes — a rattling fast 

 run. 



September 13///, Haddon. — The annual stag-hunting dinner had 

 taken place on the previous evening, and the morning opened with 

 heavy showers, such as might have been rather refreshing to some of 

 the field after the last night's proceedings. Found two stags close to 

 Hartford Cleeve at 11.45. After much trouble with the best of 

 them, and considerable dodging about the covers, he turned out a 

 fresh stag, which went away at 1.24. Up the bottom under Down's, 

 and across Upton Moor, over Little Down and Cooksley to Brendon 

 Hill Farm ; then to the right across the road by Roborough Gate, 

 over Browndown and Tripp Barrow to Fryan Brake and Holcombe 

 Waterhead. Across the road by Raleigh's Cross Inn to Colton Pits, 

 all down the bottom to Pond Woods, and through the ponds to 

 Great Wood and Ashspear Wood. Here a long check, and cold 

 hunting. Eventually fresh found him in a furze brake on the top of 

 the hill and ran him on by Combe Cross and Rowden to Escott, and 

 (leaving Combe Sydenham to the right) to Kingswood Water and 

 Heddon Oak. It was now 4 p.m., and scent failing rapidly. The 

 deer was evidently failing, as he could not jump the fences, but 

 hounds could not hunt him. He was slotted along the road under 

 the West Somerset Railway bridge, and some distance further, but a 

 double threw the slotters out. A holloa came from forward, and the 



