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for a season each ; when Captain West ^ic- 

 ceeded to that honourable post, and was followed 

 by Mr. Tom Carew, of Collipriest, with John 

 Beale for his huntsman ; he, however, resigned 

 the command in 1853, to the general regret 

 of all classes. Captain West then came for- 

 ward a second time, but only to stop a gap, 

 which, happily, was destined soon to be long 

 and most efficiently filled by Mr. Fenwick- 

 Bisset, who, taking the command in 1855, held 

 it to the entire satisfaction of the whole country 

 to the year 1881, when he was succeeded by 

 Lord Ebrington, the present Master. 



Nor will the work done by Mr. S. H. 

 Warren, who for so many years and with so 

 much tact acted as honorary secretary to the 

 Devon and Somerset Hunt, be readily forgotten; 

 for long, able, and gratuitous were the services 

 of that gentleman in behalf of the noble sport 

 peculiar to that country. 



Russell could not speak too highly in praise 

 either of the management or of the sport Mr. 

 Bisset had shown ; the latter he considered equal 

 to anything he remembered in the palmy days 

 of old, when "the halls of Castle Hill rang 

 merrily with the wassail of the hunters;" and as 

 to the former, he would say that no man ever 

 handled the farmers with more consummate tact, 

 nor did more to establish the noble sport on a 

 sure and permanent footing than he had done. 



