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hunted as usual with the Devon and Somerset 

 Staghounds. The meet on one occasion being 

 at Culbone Stables, they soon found in Pitcombe, 

 one of Lord Lovelace's covers ; but the hounds 

 dividing, the ''field" followed the body of the 

 pack, while Russell with one other man stuck 

 to a couple of hounds, and with them brought 

 the stag to bay near Badgery Water. " I can 

 well remember seeing him," writes Mr. Nicholas 

 Snow, the able Master of the Stars of the West, 

 *' as he crossed the moors from Culbone with the 

 leading hounds, and shall never forget his ringing 

 cheer as they broke from the river to Badgery, and 

 on to Brendon Common. Several people passed 

 the remark, ' Look at Russell leading across 

 Badgery!'" In a little more than three months 

 from that date he celebrated his 86th birthday, 

 being still in fine health and robust form. 



In the following February (1882) Russell again 

 p^id a visit to Sandringham, and was as before 

 charmed with the consideration and kindness 

 he met with from the Prince and Princess of 

 Wales. On parting they presented him with a 

 horse-shoe diamond scarf-pin, which the Prince 

 put into the scarf himself, saying, as he did it, 

 ''There now, it looks quite clerical." 



" But," said Russell, bowing to the royal pair, 

 "may I ask if it is given conjointly?" 



"Yes, of course, conjointly," replied the 

 Princess with a charming smile. 



