The Natural History of Selborne

Shortest day. Pleasant weather.  A hunted hind came down Galley-hill into the street; where being headed by the village dogs, it turned back to Well-head, & was taken in Kircher’s farm yard, & put into the barn, being quite run down.  One of the Gent. pursuers let it blood, & hired  a man to watch it all night.  in the morning by seven o’ the clock a deer-cart came, & took it away.  There were several Gent. in with the dogs, when they took the deer.  The dogs & hind were said to belong to Mr Delmee, who lives near Fareham. The deer was turned-out in the morning on Stevens Castle down near Bishop’s Waltham, which is at least 18 miles from this place.  The dogs were short & thick, but had shrill notes like fox-hounds, & when they ran hard opened but seldom, so that they made but little cry.