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common and over higher Hawkridge Common allotment (leaving i86^ 

 Porche§ter Post on the left) to Sandyvvay (here a view), across the 

 enclosures to the right and down to water under Baker's farm on 

 Sheardon; all up the valley to Darlick Corner, over the road and 

 down across Shortacombe; over North Radworthy and down the 

 bottom under Long Wood to Heasley Mill ; through Mine's Wood 

 to North Heasley, over Bampfylde Hill to Flitton, Rabbiscott, and 

 down the valley to the Bray (leaving Brayley Bridge to the right) at 

 Embercombe ; down the water to Castle Hill Deer Park fence, then 

 to the left through Bremridge Wood, and down through the Deer 

 Park to water again. Fresh found him in the water at 2.57. He 

 tried to jump the park railings, but failed once before he succeeded, 

 and made for the river again in Filleigh Mill Weir, where for nearly 

 half an hour he swam up and down with the hounds all round him, 

 during which he managed to pierce one of them through the right 

 ear, and towed him up and down by his left brow antler for full ten 

 minutes before he was lassoed and taken. Three only (the master 

 one of them) saw this from find to finish, two hours and twenty 

 minutes. A very fine run, and a splendid stag with all his rights and 

 three on top both sides. On this day, curiously enough, the statue 

 of Hugh, second Earl Fortescue, was unveiled at Exeter. He had 

 been practically master of the staghounds from 1812 — 18. It was 

 also Dr. Collyns's birthday, the last he lived tb see. (This deer was 

 saved and turned out. Found again in the Hawkridge valley on 

 September 2, 1864, and killed in three hours and a half without ever 

 leaving the covers. He bore then the same number of points, but a 

 heavier horn as well as a heavier body.) 



September 29///, Alderman's Barrow. — Trotted on to Horner, 

 but on the way the hounds suddenly broke away under Stoke Pero 

 Church, had found a hind, and were running hard down the Horner 

 valley in a moment. Up over Cloutsham Ball and across to Alder- 



