CHAPTER XIII. 



Russell and His Friend, the Rev. A. F. Luttrell, of 



QUANTOCKSHEAD ThE DaNGER OF HANDLING A StAG 



AT Bay — Man and Hound Injured, and both Saved 

 BY Russell — Ladies to the Front over Exmoor — • 

 Mrs. Cholmondeley's Perilous Fall. 



He knows the best line for each cover, 

 He knows where to stand for a start, 



And long- may he live to ride over 

 The country he loves in his heart. 



Egerton-Warburton. 



Valuing the companionship of Russell not less 

 than his long and untiring devotion to the sport, 

 Mr. Fenwick-Bisset, the well-known Master of 

 the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, sent him, 

 in April, 1877, a couple of stags' heads, with the 

 following letter : — 



" I have sent you two heads to-day, one 

 taken in Sheardown Water on the 6th of 

 October last, the other that of a deer which, 

 you may remember, stole away from Hawk- 

 combe, and we hunted up to, and fresh found 

 in Badgeworthy Wood, ran him back and killed 

 him in Avon Pool, below Bossington. They are 

 not very big heads, but not the less memorable 

 on that account. 



