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some way, to Middle Hill. Here they dwelt some time in cover, but i^ 

 broke away to Chipstable, Huish Champflower, and Jew's Farm ; on, 

 leaving Wiveliscombe to the right, to Ford, passing Oakhampton 

 House on the left through Gould's Plantation, Fitzhead, and Halse 

 to Heathfield Rectory and Oak Church, eventually reaching Nyne- 

 head, about a mile from Wellington, where stopped them as we found 

 we were on a stag. They must have changed on Middle Hill. Those 

 who went the whole distance were Mr. Kendall, Mr. C. Glasse, Mr. 

 Ward, Miss Ellis, Miles the huntsman, and another. The hounds had 

 thirty miles to go home and reached kennels at midnight, having 

 started at 7.45 a.m. to go fourteen miles to the meet. Arthur Heal 

 again missed his second horse and rode his first (not the same animal 

 as on the 12 th) the whole of this very hard day, but the animal was 

 none the worse /or the sixteen hours' riding, nor for the distance 

 (probably not far short of eighty miles) that was covered in the 

 course of it. 



This season, the fifth of Lord Ebrington's mastership, began on 

 the 31st of July, 1885, and terminated on the 25th of March, 1886 ; 

 in all eighty-five hunting days, wherein seventy-three deer were 

 killed. The stag-hunting was very good, and the hind-hunting about 

 the best on record. 



[In order to give some notion of the sport enjoyed in the old days 

 of stag-hunting, the Editor ventures here to insert two runs, which 

 occurred within a week of each other, in the stag-hunting season of 

 181 5. The accounts are taken from the MS. journal at Castle Hill 

 during the mastership of Hugh, first Earl Fortescue.] 



Wednesday, September 2']th. — Met at Heasley Mill. Tufted South 1815. 

 Radworthy Wood. A deer went out over the Old Park with the 



