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tightly fixed in the forked branch of a wh 
thorn about 4 feet from the ground, the sha 
bone being fractured and splintered diagonal 
He had doubtless stood upon his hind legs 
reach some ivy above him, and when stretchi 
himself upward and forward the hoofs ola 
hindlegs must have slipped from under hi 
or else when letting himself down his right fc 
must have slipped suddenly between the fork 
branch of the tree, in which it was gripped 
tightly by his weight below that escape w 
impossible. In his struggles to get free the | 
Was again broken lower down, and in tl] 
miserable condition the poor beast was d 
covered. A precisely similar accident happen 
to a fallow buck in Cornbury Park, Oxfo1 
shire, and from the same cause, the animal ti| 
ing to reach some ivy on a thorn tree. T| 
announcement of the first-mentioned accident 
Windsor Park elicited a letter from Mr. Fe 
wick Bisset, who was then Master of the Dev 
and Somerset Staghounds, to the effect that 
red deer hind had been found in Leighcom] 
in the Horner country near Porlock, hangi 
by her head in the fork of two branches of| 
pollard oak, having slipped upon sloping grou} 
in the endeavor to reach some browsing abo 
her. In another case which happened at Me 
gernie Castle, and near Loch Girrie, a you 
stag got hung up by his horns in the fork of 
birch tree, and when discovered was quite de: 
At a steep and rocky part of the Mashill Wat 
near Loch Laggan, in Badenoch, some yee| 
ago, a stag apparently while trving to rea 
some branches above him slipped forward a 
fell into a crevice of the rock, where his weig 
caused him to become so tightly jammed tk 
he was unable to extricate himself, and 
perished. 
These are a few incidents which have cor| 
to mind after perusing a letter recently receiv| 
from Capt. Hart Davis (the author of Stal| 
ing Sketches), in which he describes an ac 
dent to a red deer quite as singular and mu 
more uncommon than any of the precedin 
He writes.as follows of a stag that was 
victim of an unusual accident: “He had ey 
dently been licking himself and slipped u_ 
locking himself effectively into his own antle: 
His neck was broken, so the poor beast did n 
die a lingering death. He was found by ti 
head stalker, Mr. R. Renton, at Glenare| 
Argyllshire, on Jan. 10 last, and when discover 
had been dead some days.” 














TWENTY MILES OF ANGLERS. 
THE little town of Tewkesbury, with its fi) | 
abbey, historic streets, and two rivers, is fai) 
well accustomed both to excursionists and |’ 
fishermen, but Monday last must have prj’ 
vided a new event to be inscribed in its archive 
for 1,710 anglers descended upon it fro! ' 
Birmingham, occupied ten and a half miles | 
the Severn from Upton down to Apperley, ar|' 
seated themselves, according to local comput ' 
tion, upon twenty miles of bank. The occasic 
was the annual contest of the Birmingham ar|' 
District United Anglers’ Association, the prizi|' 
numbered 100, and the victor, Mr. A. Pinne| 
proved to have taken 2 pounds 5% ounces | 
fish (ten roach) in the allotted three hours. T1}! 
biggest fish caught was a perch half an oun 
over the pound, not at all a bad specimen fi ' 
the Severn in those parts. Tewkesbury hi| 
seen monster competitions before now (I r| 
member seeing a mile or so of anglers on t]| 
Avon, just the tail end of the procession, so 4). 
speak), but this is, I believe, .its most strikin] ' 
experience of the contemplative man in bul}! 
Fortunately, perhaps, its fish are able to tal)! 
care of themselves; they used to be, at any rat} | 
and with signs of progress like this they are n«| ' 
likely to have changed. We used to have 
theory, says The Field, that they were wel] ‘ 
aware when a competition was toward and r 
tired discreetly into obscurity, remaining thei 
till weighing-in had begun. But that may hay 
been merely coincidence, for they were alway 
a retiring race; one had to fise before the su 
to do much good with them. A competitic 
which begins at 11:30 and ends at 2:30 is hand 
capped pretty severely. 



