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Gliibb's hunt, nor to that of Mr. Newton 

 Fellowes, came forward and invited him not 

 only to draw them when he pleased, but to 

 consider them for the future as part and parcel 

 of his own country. Among those may be 

 mentioned Mr, J. M. Woolcombe, of Ashbury, 

 Mr. Savile, of Oaklands, Mr. Tremayne, of 

 Sydenham, and Mr. Harris Arundell, of Lifton 

 Park. 



But, in addition to these valuable acquisi- 

 tions, the trustees of Sir William Molesworth, 

 then a minor, were good enough still further to 

 enlarge his borders by giving Russell per- 

 mission to draw the Tetcott and Pencarrow 

 covers. Again, the Duke of Northumberland's 

 covers at Werrington, the Duke of Bedford's at 

 Endsleigh, those of Mr. Baring Gould, Colonel 

 Fortescue, of Buckland Filleigh, Mr. Luxmoore, 

 Mr. Buckingham, and of Lord Clinton, were 

 all placed at his disposal, while at the same 

 time a general promise was given that foxes, 

 for the future, would receive fair play. 



When the season, then, of 1828 had fairly 

 set in, Russell must have felt as if the morn 

 of a golden age was dawning upon him, so full 

 of promise, so bright and encouraging was the 

 prospect that now lay before him. Like the 

 Colossus of Rhodes, he had one foot on Broad- 

 bury and the other planted on the Bodmin 

 moors ; with not one, but many great rivers 



