114 Modern Dogs. 



It may be interesting to note that the "old pack," 

 which had been bred on Exmoor, was sold to go to 

 Germany in i8i i, and what has been produced from 

 it, with no doubt suitable crosses, is hunting there 

 still. Although the staghunting in the West is 

 carried out on modern lines, its ancient history is 

 not forgotten. The houses of the country families, 

 of the Aclands, Fortescues, Fellowes, Bassets, and 

 many others are hung with " heads " dating from the 

 last century ; the silver buttons with the hunt device 

 on them are handed down from generation to 

 generation, and those worn by the late master, Mr. 

 C. H. Basset, who resigned at the close of 1893-4, 

 and whose grandfather hunted the hounds from 

 1 780 to 1 786, are over one hundred and twenty 

 years old. Mr. R. A. Sanders is the present 

 master. 



In 1896, Sir John Heathcote Amery, who had 

 hunted with great success about Tiverton, established 

 his pack as staghounds, and without interfering 

 with his neighbour the Devon and Somerset, who 

 are giving him every support, will no doubt be able 

 to afford many good runs in the future after the 

 wild red deer. 



In some other parts of the country, stags and 

 hinds are hunted indiscriminately (the Queen's prefer 

 haviers, cut at four years old), the former being 



