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'A picture is added from which they appear to have 

 had, beside 'the bloodhound-like heads and deep 

 throats,' shortish necks and somewhat heavy shoulders, 

 with hind quarters rather light for the rest of their 

 body. They do not look like going fast, yet they 

 must have been able to travel, for they killed their 

 deer on a fair proportion of days ; and in November, 

 1816, accounted for five hinds on five consecutive 

 hunting days, no mean performance : again, on Au- 

 gust 26, 1815, they killed in two hours and a half a 

 fine stag which they found under Charles, and ran by 

 Bray Cross and Simonsbath to Horner Green. 1 Lord 

 Graves, however, warns the new master, never, if it can 

 possibly be avoided, to hunt a young male deer, lest the 

 severity of the chase should disable hounds and horses 

 for a fortnight ; and that is sufficient proof that the old 

 pack, whether from want of pace or from imperfect 

 condition, or both, could not go on running for two 

 or three hours at the high speed necessary to bring 

 ' a light galloping deer ' satisfactorily to hand. Yet 

 they had some first-rate sport. The moorland was 

 nearly all unenclosed then, deer crossed the country 

 in all directions more freely than they do now, and 



1 The present pack covered nearly the same distance, over 

 much the same line of country, on October 3, 1888, in an hour 

 and forty minutes. 



