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found only hinds; then the plantations from Twitchen Combe east- ^^^5- 

 ward. About 1.40 found a stag, which Miles had harboured on 

 Yarner Nap. He went westward, and the tufters were stopped, and 

 the pack laid on in the plantations fifteen minutes later. From 

 Silcombe, however, he turned up, and crossed the Lynton road to 

 Lillycombe, keeping round the brow of the hill to Metcombe, across 

 Wear Cleeve to Wear Water, and up on to Mill Hill by the path 

 under Black Barrow. The pack had got scattered in the covers, but 

 the leading hounds were stopped here by the master. Laid them on 

 afresh at 2.25, and ran to Chalk Water by Stowford Bottom ; up that 

 and over Deer Park to Badgworthy Water, opposite Doone valley. 

 The deer broke out above Badgworthy Wood, and went up Long- 

 combe, then up over Withycombe ridge, and nearly to Doone valley, 

 running into a herd of hinds just outside the Brendon Common fence, 

 which occasioned a slight check. Then on, parallel to the Doone 

 valley, and by the ponds, to Farley Water by Markaway path ; over 

 Chariton ridge (when the stag was viewed) to Hoar Oak Water, a 

 little below the Forest wall, which he now broke over for Hoar Oak 

 Hill and the Chains. Passing by Chains Barrow they turned down 

 over Dryford allotment to the east end of Goat Hill and the Barle, 

 five hundred yards above Dryford Cot. Here another slight check, 

 the deer going up stream a quarter of a mile. He then broke out 

 over Roostitchen, and going round the north side of Showlsbarrow 

 came through the enclosures to the road by Five Ways ; down this 

 same way towards Leworthy Bridge, in over Grattan fields, and 

 passing close by the house sank the valley to the Bray under Ovis. 

 Here Miles, who had gone right well on the same horse on which he 

 had been harbouring since daylight, caught a view, and capping the 

 hounds on, they got up to him at Leworthy Bridge. They ran him 

 in view some little way down, then back, and killed him just below 

 the bridge at 4.10. A very fine run. Scent was not first-rate, but they 

 went quite fast enough. About a dozen saw it throughout, among 



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