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1864. time stopped. The deer went up the water to Tomshill Wall, and 

 turned up the smaller water on to the North Forest, and was viewed 

 on Buscombe, Brought the pack on ; ran him over Buscombe and 

 the Warren to the Brendon road, over Blackpits and down Farley- 

 Combe to the enclosures ; up to Brendon Parsonage and down 

 through Farley Wood to Bridge Ball, up through the cover again, over 

 the enclosures and through the covers to Watersmeet ; hit off the line 

 by the stone bridge leading to Countisbury, and up by the cliff 

 towards Glenthorne. It was now 5.15, and hounds were stopped, 

 but news was brought soon after that the deer had been seen to lie 

 down. Laid on the pack in the darkness, and finally drove him still 

 further towards Glenthorne, and clown from crag to crag of the cliff 

 and to sea, with the pack at his haunches all along the beach. 

 A boat was brought round but could not find him, and so this gallant 

 stag (which the master had already determined to save) saved him- 

 self once more. He had been on foot five and a half hours. (Mr. 

 Bellew held the horn this day, and throughout the time that Babbage 

 was disabled.) 



October 2^th, Hawkcombe Head. — Found a hind in Shilletts, laid 

 on at 2.45, and ran very hard into Farley combe (thirty-six minutes), 

 thence over Scobhill to the Brendon covers, and spent the afternoon 

 badgering her up and down between Millslade and Ilford Bridges, 

 where at 6 p.m. the hounds were stopped and taken home. 



1865. Septemh€7- 12///, Dunkery Hill Gate. — No stag in the Cutcombe 

 covers, so went at once to Cloutsham. Fog stopped all attempt to 

 hunt till I o'clock, when it cleared off altogether. Found at once 

 in Wilmotsham Wood, and ran twice up and down the valley between 

 Poole Bridge and Cloutsham Ball, and then away. Laid on in 

 Poole enclosures at 3.5. Ran across the fields and common above, 

 then up Nutscale Combe and over the Culbone road by Colley 



