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up in my face so winningly, as much as to 

 say, 'Only give us a trial, and we'll not dis- 

 appoint you,' that I mentally determined to 

 keep the lot and go to work again." 



But the same friends were still at hand to 

 counteract the temptation ; and so great was 

 the pressure put upon him, that again he con- 

 sented with a heavy heart to abandon his 

 design, and send the six and a half couple 

 after the rest down to Restormel. 



Accordingly, they were actually taken out 

 of kennel to be so forwarded, when Mrs. 

 Russell, witnessing her husband's dejection at 

 parting with them, interposed and said, "Then 

 they shan't go, John, if you don't like it. I 

 don't see why you shouldn't have your amuse- 

 ment as well as other people." So back they 

 went into Russell's kennel, and from that day 

 he continued to keep hounds till 1871, when 

 he parted with his last pack to Mr. Henry 

 Villebois, of Marham Hall, Norfolk, a gentle- 

 man well known to the world as an old 

 master of hounds and a distinguished sports- 

 man. 



It is related of the late eminent Bishop of 

 Exeter, Henry Phillpotts, that soon after his 

 appointment to that diocese in 1831, he was 

 travelling on a visitation tour through the north 

 of Devon, and seeing a pack of hounds in 

 full cry, and a large number of gentlemen in 



