146 MEMOIR OF 



who put him on Reuben Apsley by Gains- 

 boroui^h, a chestnut horse, perfect as a fencer 

 and a rare goer in deep ground. Found and 

 away at once ; over the moor at a trimming 

 pace to Hindabarrow, where they threw up. 

 Russell, however, in spite of advice to the 

 contrary, caught hold of his hounds, and taking 

 them back to a road where he had seen a 

 hound hesitate for a moment, hit off his fox ; 

 held the line for a mile or more steadily along 

 the high road, then quitting it, dashed over the 

 moor and raced up to him in (iermanswick 

 Wood, bringing him away in view, and running 

 into him on Brockscombe Moor. Time, forty 

 minutes. 



Returning homewards, a fox jumped out of 

 a hedgerow capped with gorse, and away they 

 went at score, over Beaworthy Hollow and 

 Soper's Moor, across Wagaford Water, running 

 from scent to view and rolling him over on the 

 open moor in fifty-two minutes, without the 

 ghost of a check from fmd to hnish. 



Heavy and deep were the moorlands, while 

 the boundary fences were big enough to stop a 

 red-deer. Russell, in each run, went straight 

 away with his leading hounds, taking the fences 

 as they came, and maintaining the lead from 

 (irst to last ; though Phillipps on F'oster, a 

 noted hunter by Gainsborough, Morth Wool- 

 combe on Crown Prince, Treby on Spectre, L. 



