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frame apparently insensible of fatigue, could alone 

 enable a man in his eighty-second year to do 

 such distances in the saddle, not only without 

 suffering, but with a rare appetite for the next 

 day's sport. 



But a week's work performed in the spring 

 of 1874, when he was only in his seventy-ninth 

 year, has, I believe, no parallel in the records 

 of such feats. He was invited by Admiral 

 and Mrs. Parker to stay a week with them 

 at Delamore, their seat near Ivybridge, on 

 the southern side of Dartmoor, to meet Mr. 

 Mark Rolle, whose hounds were about to hunt 

 that country, by invitation from Mr. Trelawny, 

 on alternate days in conjunction with his 

 own. 



Russell would unhesitatingly have said " Nolo 

 Episcopari," if even the Palatinate of Durham 

 had been offered to him ; but to enjoy, at the 

 same time, the hospitality of Delamore and 

 the treat of a week's hunting with the crack 

 packs of his two friends was more than he 

 could resist ; so he responded to Mrs. Parker's 

 bidding with a grateful acceptance. 



Accordingly, on Monday, the 23rd of March, 

 he was off betimes, riding part way and doing 

 the rest by rail — a distance altogether of more 

 than eighty miles. Arrived in time for the 

 meet, and hunted all day with Mr. Rolle 's 

 hounds. 



