. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. hehills to our left roll back and display a little plain ofpark land, with a large house wreathed in tall beech-trees looking southward over it. That is Castle Hill,where the stag-hounds were kept from 1812 to 1818,as many a pair of antlers bears witness. There arealso antlers of later date, from 1881, namely, to 1885,with probably more coming in the future to bearthem company. But we must follow our merry little river past thelittle village of Filleigh (the first group of housesworthy to be called a village that we have met), andon into a park of fallow de
. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. hehills to our left roll back and display a little plain ofpark land, with a large house wreathed in tall beech-trees looking southward over it. That is Castle Hill,where the stag-hounds were kept from 1812 to 1818,as many a pair of antlers bears witness. There arealso antlers of later date, from 1881, namely, to 1885,with probably more coming in the future to bearthem company. But we must follow our merry little river past thelittle village of Filleigh (the first group of housesworthy to be called a village that we have met), andon into a park of fallow deer, whence we catch farahead a glimpse of a great hill range, covered withyellow grass as it seems, towering high above upward (though possibly the traveller mightprefer to linger in the park), under a grey stoneviaduct (alas! a railway viaduct); and now the greatoak coppice woods begin once more to approach thewater, till they fairly stride right doWn to it on bothsides. Here we are really in a stronghold of the red ^^^■.
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