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and Billbrooke, pointing for the sea at Blue Anchor. But, puzzled 

 by the railway line, she turned to the right through Old Cleeve, 

 Stoate's Plantation, and Bye Farm nearly to Kentsford, and on the 

 west side of the railway to Watchet cliffs, where she went over and 

 was killed on the beach. A very fast run of two hours without a 

 check ; and a very fine hind. 



[There were as usual many good runs with the hinds over the 

 moor, and one was run from Haddon Wood to Sandyway and back 

 to Willingford, where she was lost in the dark.] 

 ^^^3- Stags being very numerous the hounds hunted four days a week 

 from the 9th of August to the 13th of October, 1883. 



August iph, Pitt Combe Head. — Ran a young stag from Pitt 

 Combe to Wear Water, Blackbarrow, Lucott Moor, Nutscale, over 

 the whole length of Dunkerry, on over Grabbist, and killed him in 

 Minehead town. Two hours and forty minutes fast over the open, 

 but slow hunting over the enclosures. He carried brow and two on 

 top on each horn — a peculiar head. 



August iSf/i, Pitt Combe Head. — A good run from the Planta- 

 tions to Blackbarrow, Larkbarrow, Deer Park, Farley, Hoar Oak, 

 Furzehill, and almost to Sadler's Stone, where hounds were stopped, 

 being on a hind and calf. Deer all over the place. 



August 22nd, Yard Down. —Found a stag in Kedworthy Wood 

 and ran very fast over the open to Simonsbath and to the Exe by the 

 Warren, killing him just above Exford. Fifty minutes fast. 



Septejnber xoth, Haddon. — Drew the covers up and down in 

 pouring rain till 4.30, when found four stags in Easter Coppice. 

 They ran one (an old stag) across the valley, over Haddon Hill and 

 away by Pixey Copse and on to the Exe by Chain Bridge, losing 



