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Rosslyn was master and stayed with Mr. Compton. 

 I went to the hotel. Algood lent me a chestnut 

 horse. A grand, great stag came bounding over 

 the palings, out of a plantation in view of the whole 

 field, then ran over the moor about twelve miles, 

 into some enclosures near the sea, and I thought my 

 time had come, as there were some fences ; but the 

 beast turned round, and ran all the way back to 

 Lyndhurst. All the horses were tired ; I believe 

 some of them died. The Queen's Hounds never 

 went to hunt in the New Forest again, and the red- 

 deer were all destroyed. 



On the 15th May we marched from Hampton 

 Court to Exeter. My troop went to Trowbridge 

 for a short time, and I got to Exeter on the ist 

 July. 



January, 1845, at Exeter. Martin Howarth was 

 master of the Devon Hounds ; Tom Clarke, his 

 whipper-in, and Charles Pike, kennel boy. Howarth 

 lived in the village of Powderham, and was factor to 

 Lord Courtenay. Lady Mary Howarth was Lord 

 Courtenay's cousin. She was afterwards Countess 

 of Rothes. Howarth was keen enough, but not 

 much of a huntsman. He would sit on the top 

 of a hill and view-holloa, though his hounds were 

 a mile away. 



