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they are confined by collars and chains, the latter six feet long. 

 The chains of some of them are affixed to swivels fastened on 

 the tops of the kennels ; so that by describing a circle of about 

 eighteen feet, they keep themselves in tolerable wind. He has 

 one fox at his kennel so tame that he wags his brush as a 

 spaniel wags his tail when any one he knows approaches him ; and 

 he has also one jackal in his possession, which of course he does 

 not hunt. 



Some thorough-bred fox-hunters may say there is too much of the 

 bag about Mr. Templer's hunting. This we must all admit ; but in 

 such a country as Devonshire, exceptions to rules and customs may 

 be allowed ; and to ensure sport by any means is the grand object. 

 If a covert prove blank in many countries, it is nearly as good as a 

 middling chase to trot away for two or three miles over hedge and 

 ditch, and try another ; but to be trotting up and down the Devon- 

 shire lanes for half the day would be anything but agreeable. Mr. 

 Templer's field, then, is never disappointed, a brace of foxes being 

 always at hand ; and what is of no small advantage in his case, he 

 can generally pick his country for his day's sport. 



To shew that Mr. Templer's hounds can kill foxes when suffered 

 to do so, it may not be amiss to mention, that whilst they were at 

 Northmolton, for the purpose of hunting alternate days with Mr. 

 Fellowes's or Sir Arthur Chichester's hounds, at the Chulmleigh 

 Club, they killed three brace of foxes in four days. 



The Chulmleigh Club is a very old-estabHshed meeting, and 

 attended by most of the principal gentlemen of the county. As a 

 proof of the force of local customs, phan-puddinrj and tongue (eaten 

 together) form a standing dish. 



Mr. Templer rides hard, and had six very clever horses for his 

 own riding — four of which he bred by Czar Peter and Colossus, 

 horses in Mr. Fellowes's stud. On the day I was out, he rode a 

 very fine Colossus mare, equal to fourteen stone, and w^hich ought to 

 be in a better country. 



There is one gentleman who is a constant attendant on Mr. 

 Templer's hounds, a very fine horseman over a country, and, report 

 says, quite the clipper of the west. This is the Eev. Henry Taylor. 

 There is another gentleman of the same cloth — the Eev. John 



