CHAPTER VII. 



The Artificial Fox-Earth — Accession of Country — 

 The Bodmin Meetings — Long Distances to Cover 

 — Sir Tatton Svkes — The Ivy Bridge Hunt Week 

 — Rides Home. 



O, said he, you will never live to my ag'e, without \-ou 

 keep yourself in breath with exercise, and in heart with jov- 

 fulness ; too much thinkinif doth consume the spirits; and oft it 

 falls out, that, while one thinks too much of his doing, he leaves 

 to do the effect of his thinking. 



Sir PyiLip Sidney. 



Russell had been married one year, within a 

 day, when, on the 2C)th of May, 1827, his wife 

 presented him with his first-born son, whom 

 they named John Burv — a precious though a 

 short-lived offering, for the child died, and was 

 buried in Iddesleigh Churchyard on the follow- 

 ing 31st of May. On the 23rd of August, 

 however, in that year, 1828, just three months 

 afterwards, a second son was born to them at 

 Bennington House, and received the names of 

 Richard Bury Russell — a gentleman who for 

 some time was Colonel of the North Devon 

 Militia Artillery, a J. P. for that county, and 

 died in 1883. 



On turning over some manuscripts relating 

 to those early days and the versatile power of 

 his little pack, I find, in Russell's handwriting 



