CHAPTER III 



" THE Dartmoor Otter - hounds (water 

 permitting) at Teigngrace Station. By 

 invitation." Such was the announcement in 

 the Western Morning News which cheered 

 us all, and heralded what proved a successful 

 and highly enjoyable day's sport. The 

 morning of the eventful day dawned fair 

 and auspicious, and at the appointed hour 

 fourteen couple of hounds, with terrier 

 " Jim," the ever-genial Master, and his two 

 painstaking whips Arthur and Johnnie 

 with a strong contingent of the members of 

 the Hunt, detrained, having travelled up by 

 rail. Outside the station a large " field," 

 including a goodly number of ladies, looking 



happy and bright, and fresh as the morning 



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