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hill above by Elsvvorthy into the Timberscombe valley; across the 1864. 

 Minehead road and up over the opposite hill by Slade and Beasley 

 Farm, leaving Bickham to the left ; across the valley just above 

 Timberscombe village on to Croydon Hill ; along the head of and 

 through Avill Wood to Boniton and Longcombe, turning out over the 

 top of King's Wood into Dunster Park. We had had to encounter 

 the bogs of Exmoor, the stones and rocks of Dunkery, and now had 

 a third element to grapple with, perhaps the most dangerous of the 

 three — the rabbit holes at the head of Dunster Park. However, these 

 were safely passed, and the hounds took the line beautifully through 

 the fallow deer, hit off a fresh scent on the lower side of the park, 

 through the palings into a small hanging wood below, at the upper 

 end of which they fresh found the deer, running him over the lawn to 

 the stream, where he was taken at 4.50, three hours and forty-five 

 minutes from the lay on by Brendon Church. Very fast over the 

 moor, though slow over the enclosures. Ten at the end of this 

 glorious run, including master and whip. Jack Babbage had a bad 

 fall on Badgworthy, dislocating his shoulder and breaking his collar 

 bone. Many pulled up at Horner who had cast shoes. [Very com- 

 mon in all great runs. — Ed.] 



September 2"] th, Cloutsham. — A good hunting run from Cloutsham 

 to Badgworthy, Brendon Common, the East Lyn, to Glenthorne, 

 back to Brendon and to sea by Lynmouth. He returned to shore, 

 and was seen on the cliffs, but it was too dark to follow him. Laid 

 on at 2.30, and ran to sea at 6.5. Thus we missed this deer for this 

 day, but on 



October nth (Cloutsham), found the same stag in Yelscombe, and 

 laid on under Cloutsham Ball at 1.33. Away over Dunkery and across 

 the common to Mill Water, over Mill Hill and Blackbarrow to Chalk 

 Water, over Oare Common and down to Badgworthy Wood. Here 

 all but five hounds broke away after a young hind, but were after a 



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