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cavalcade moved off to Bayliss Court Farm, where the 

 deer Baronet was speedily uncarted ; but, bewildered 

 by the hideous hullabaloo which proceeded from the 

 crowd of spectators, he declined to face the open 

 country which lay before him ; and, jumping over 

 a small and crowded dog-cart and the heads of 

 some of his pursuers, made away for the Slough 

 Station, followed by the howling crowd and a lot of 

 horsemen^ who, disdaining to follow the hounds, pre- 

 ferred themselves to hunt the stag. Then, getting 

 clear of the brickyards and railway sidings, he made 

 for Langley Park : but, bending to the right, he went 

 over the rail near Langley level crossing, going at a 

 splitting pace across Langley Broom, and making for 

 Horton, where he took to the water, closely followed by 

 the hounds ; but, contriving to shake them off, he 

 emerged from his bath, and refreshed by the immer- 

 sion, soon showed them his heels, running across 

 Staines Moor, in the direction of Stanwell, at great 

 speed, scattering the field in all directions, and making 

 for the river, which he crossed, and laid up in the 

 osier-beds at Laleham. Having thus far distanced his 

 pursuers, he had time to recover his wind, whilst 

 Goodall trotted the pack to Chertsey Bridge, and then 

 along the Surrey side of the Thames back to these 

 osier beds, whence the deer was soon driven again, 

 and made to face the open, being finally taken in a 

 chalk pit at Eowton, near Addlestone, in Surrey, 

 after a terrific run of over four hours, during which 

 time a distance of about thirty miles must have been 

 traversed. The field was diminished at the end of 

 this almost unparalleled run to the small number of half- 

 a-dozen or thereabouts, and the deer was with diffi- 



