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twenty good hunters in his stable— so that he may be said to be 

 horsed equal to his work — being a horse for every day in the week 

 for himself and men to begin with. Jennings rode a favorite old 

 horse on the race-course, which, if my memory serves me, had 

 carried him fifteen seasons, but was to be provided for after the 

 present cub-hunting was over. He is a well-bred light-bodied horse 

 on a large set of limbs, which accounts for his lasting so long. 



Devonshire is certainly the worst hunting country I ever was in ; 

 yet, strange to say, there are more hounds kept in it than in any 

 other three counties in England. Independent of the established 

 packs of stag and fox-hounds (of which there are one of the former, 

 and four of the latter), nearly half the resident gentlemen, and the 

 greater part of the yeomanry, keep what they call "a cry of dogs ; " 

 and a friend of mine, who resides among them, told me he had 

 hunted with seventy-two packs ! 



A new pack of fox-hounds has lately been added to the list, kept 

 by Sir Arthur Chichester, of Youlston near Barnstaple, and are 

 hunted by John Horlock, whom I knew when he hunted Lord 

 Glammis' stag-hounds in the lower part of Hertfordshire. Before 

 he lived with his Lordship, he hunted a pack of subscription fox- 

 hounds in Cambridgeshire ; and as, when we come to impressions, 

 contrast is everything, I should much like to know what he thinks 

 of the Devonshire dingles, and those killing hills which abound in 

 his new country, after the flats of Cambridgeshire. He has made 

 his debut, however, at the Chulmleigh Club, but the weather must 

 have been much against him. 



Sir Arthur, I understand, commenced operations last season, and 

 finished with lamentable diminution of hounds and horses ; but 

 from what I saw of his country, it never could be intended for fox- 

 hounds. " Over the mountains, and over the moors," is a pretty 

 commencement to a love song, and the words sound well to music ; 

 but it is a sorry recommendation to a hunting country. 



I 'must here introduce one gentleman, who resides in Sir Arthur's 

 country, as an example to all sportsmen. His name is Incledon, 

 and he resides at Yeotown near Barnstaple. He is both a stag and 

 a fox hunter, and the best preserver of the best sort of game in the 

 country. He himself told me that he was then feeding no less than 



