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1863. combe to Luccombe Plantation and round Dunkery towards Wootton 

 Courtenay, on by Dunkery Gate and then away to Forest. Hopeless 

 to stop them, so there was nothing to be done but to follow. On 

 over Chescombe Head and Acmead to the water, up over Oare 

 Common and to the left to Badgworthy Water ; over Withycombe 

 Ridge to Farley Combe and down to the enclosures. Fresh found 

 her here, and back over Blackhill to Badgworthy Wood, at the lower 

 end of which she was taken after a run of three hours. She was 

 saved and turned out again. 



November 20th, Haddon. — Found a hind in Haddon Wood. Laid 

 on by Blackmore's house at i.io, and ran with bad scent down to 

 the stream at the bottom. Here a check of three-quarters of an 

 hour. After much fruitless casting, fresh found her in Deer Park. 

 It looked very Hke a male deer, but the knowing ones all pronounced 

 it a hind, so the master let them go. Away to Haddon End, and 

 from this to Middle Hill on Heydown as straight as the crow flies 

 and as fast. Down to Washbottle Mill and doubled back, then 

 to the bottom again by the mill and away. Over the Wivelis- 

 combe road, and over Jew's Farm and Cording's Ball to Hudford 

 Farm, and on by Brompton Ralph to Rook's Nest and Elworthy Gate ; 

 straight on over the enclosures of Preston, Wood and Escott Farms 

 (Stogumber to the right and Monksilver to the left), to Yellow Wood 

 Farm and Aller ; then, leaving Capton to the right, to Orchard Wynd- 

 ham, crossing the lawn to a small stream, when the pack ran into 

 ///;// at 4.30 3 but he was cleverly saved, with no further injury than 

 that which the breed seems to get over very easily — being half 

 drowned. As generally happens, the "fine hind" found in Deer 

 Park proved to be a male deer. A most splendid run, two hours 

 and a half from the fresh find without a minute's check. (This deer 

 was ear-marked and turned into Colton Pits, but has never been 

 accounted for.) 



