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to come forward and suggest the need of 

 another pack of hounds, and therefore the 

 curtaihiient of Russell's country. 



So the Landue pack, under the command 

 of as gallant a rider as ever crossed a country, 

 Mr. Phillipps, late of the 7th Hussars, better 

 known as Tom Phillipps, was forthwith started, 

 and the Tetcott, Hayne, and Broadbury covers 

 wrested from Russell, and handed over to him. 

 He then took formal possession of the country, 

 "the limits of which," writes Russell, "appear 

 to me to be illimitable ; for they claimed all 

 the covers from Hatherleigh — three miles from 

 my kennels at Iddesleigh — to Wade Bridge, 

 ten miles below Bodmin." 



Phillipps, however, met one morning at 

 Gribbleford Bridge, only two miles from 

 Hatherleigh, found four brace of foxes in the 

 cover — a dog, vixen, and three brace of cubs 

 — but made a mull of it, called off his hounds 

 in disgust and went home, a distance of thirty 

 miles at least to his kennel. After some time 

 it was communicated to Russell that Phillipps 

 would never draw those covers again ; so, as 

 the country was a choice one, comprising the 

 fine moorland district of Broadbury, the wildest 

 in the West of England, Russell bethought . 

 him how he could best recover his footing 

 and bring about the desirable end of securing 

 it for his own. 



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