164 REMINISCENCES OF 



you are coming here, and gave me a sovereign to- 

 wards the damage fund. Bissett's father died last 

 Wednesday ; he will be out, and I hope at Dunster 

 Castle next week. 



" You must come here by the Great Western Line 

 from Paddington or you will be detained in Barn- 

 staple no end of time. I will telegraph to you at 

 Charleton by-and-bye. Boxes all ready for your 

 horses, and lots of old hay, corn and beans vetches 

 if you approve I always give them after hunting. 

 " Love to you all, 



" Ever yours affectionately, 



"J. RUSSELL." 



On 1 6th August sent George Kemp with 

 "Johnny Brady" and "Home Rule " to Tordown. 

 We, wife, Kit and Rosie, followed on the i8th. 

 Staghounds met next day at Mounsey Hill Gate ; 

 fog and wet and no sport. Jack mounted Kit on his 

 old black horse he was very slow and short of wind 

 and Rosie on a pony which he borrowed some- 

 where. He also borrowed a four-wheel pony trap 

 which "Johnny Brady" went in, and I rode 

 " Home Rule ". We drove over to Lynton on the 

 2ist, and joined Tom Arnold (Atherstone) at the inn. 



22nd was the Prince's day; Hawkcombe Head. 

 We drove over in pony carriage and met the horses 

 there. An immense crowd of all sorts. Met Charles 

 Williams Bassett. Had not seen him since he lent 

 me a horse at the Portsmouth Arms with Ports- 

 mouth's hounds in 1872. 



