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1882. Septe?nher 6th, Yard Down. — Found at once in Bray Barton 

 Wood. Laid on in the road above Bray School, and ran up to 

 Leworthy Cleave, where all but seven and a half couple went away 

 after another deer. These, however, stuck to the hunted one, and 

 brought him back to Hole Water, where killed him. A very fine stag, 

 with B. B. T. 2 and B. T. 3. 



The remainder of the pack (fifteen couple) ran on to Leworthy 

 Post (Mr. C. H. Basset, of Pilton, taking command), and to the left to 

 Moccombe Plantation, and on towards Kembland Cross, near which 

 they set him up in a small cover, and he broke away in view straight 

 for Stoke Rivers, and went down nearly to Chelpham Mill, but short 

 of it turned to the left to Tree Beech, and down the valley to Good- 

 leigh, crossed by the back of Willesleigh House, and over the Devon 

 and Somerset Railway at the back of Landkey ; then alongside the 

 Landkey and Barnstaple road to Mount Sandford, across it, and over 

 Coddon Hill, straight for Newbridge. Here the hounds checked, and 

 the whip, who had gone in pursuit, stopped them and brought them 

 back, but the huntsman coming on with the rest of the pack, the 

 master decided to return, and the hounds recovering the line at 

 Fishaton carried it through Hall nearly to Hawkridge Wood, and 

 fresh found in a spinney by the Taw, opposite Umberleigh House. 

 Raced him in view over the marshes below, and killed in the stream 

 dividing the Wrey and Basset properties at 6 p.m. Scent was good 

 and the pace very great. A four- year-old deer, with B. T. 2 on each 

 horn. Head given to Mr. C. H. Basset. Hounds did not reach 

 kennel till midnight. (The line taken by this deer w^as not unusual 

 in the old days. This was the first deer driven across the Taw from 

 the Bray or Bratton covers since September 25, 1818. — Ed.) 



September 28M, Yard Down. — A good stag reported in Bray Ball, 

 but he either stole away unseen or was never found ; so, not to lose 

 a day, laid the pack on the line of a young stag (said to have two on 



