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alliance with Mr. Arthur Harris, of Hayne, 

 remain unacknowledged; for beyond all question, 

 the active and liberal co-operation of that gentle- 

 man did him invaluable service in his first start 

 as a Master of Hounds. 



Although not yet in possession of that pro- 

 perty, his father and mother being still alive, the 

 young squire brought all the influence of his 

 paternal acres to bear not only, as we have seen, 

 on the cultivation of foxes, but on the still 

 further extension of the country ; promising 

 Russell he would not rest, nor would he let 

 his friends rest, till he could draw every cover, 

 if no bigger than a blanket, from Torrington to 

 Bodmin. 



In helping Russell to promote these objects, 

 which he did with unflagging zeal and energy, 

 Mr. Harris had the good fortune to be materially 

 supported by a kind maiden aunt, yclept Pene- 

 lope ; and so zealous was she in the cause of 

 fox-hunting that, in her eighty-eighth year, she 

 remained for some hours in her pony-carriage 

 watching Mr. Henry Deacon, the present able 

 Master of the H.H., drawing the Hayne covers, 

 and finding his fox at length in Arraycot 

 Wood. 



Among the best of the hounds selected by 

 Russell from the Hayne kennels, and afterwards 

 drafted by him, was a litter of five, bred from 

 the Belvoir Rosamond bv a noted hound of 



