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at the Chulmleigh Club, they killed three brace 

 of foxes in four days," 



And those foxes, be it observed, were the 

 wild moorland tartars, bred in the rough country 

 surrounding Exmoor. 



Under a tutor, then, so well qualified to 

 instruct him in the countless mysteries of the 

 " noble science," it would, indeed, have been a 

 wonder if Russell, so fashioned bv Nature for 

 the chase, had not fulfilled to the utmost the 

 expectations with which he was then credited 

 by so able and experienced a master. That he 

 did not disappoint him, the world will bear 

 strong witness in the pupil's favour. 



Nimrod, who was fortunate in meeting both 

 the Rev. Henry Taylor and Russell at Stover, 

 has left us the following brief sketch of those 

 two men : — 



" There is one gentleman who is a constant 

 attendant on Air. Templer's hounds, a very fine 

 horseman over a country, and, report says, 

 quite the clipper of the West. This is the Rev. 

 Henry Taylor. There is another gentleman of 

 the same cloth, the Rev. John Russell (but much 

 better known by the name of * Jack Russell '), 

 who, though he resides about thirty miles from 

 him, hunts a good deal with Mr. Templer, and 

 who also stands high among the Devonshire 

 bruisers. This gentleman finds hunting so 

 conducive to his health, that with stag-hounds. 



