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Mr. Carew hunts the pack two days a week, and 

 Mr. Ludovic Heathcoat Amory whips to him. The 

 farmers are very fond of hunting and preserve plenty 

 of hares, which are very stout and afford first-rate 

 sport. The Ashburton, fifteen couples of nineteen 

 and a half-inch pure harriers, possess a sporting 

 country in South Devon, the bulk of it moorland, 

 with big stone walls and banks, the remainder pasture, 

 plough, and woodland, Mr. Wilson Ranson, the 

 Master, hunts the pack, which is kennelled at Rew, 

 near Ashburton, and goes out twice a week. The 

 Axe Vale country lies in East Devon, and extends 

 just over the edge of Dorset. The pack consists of 

 thirteen couples of harriers (twenty-one-inch), which, 

 mastered by Mr. J. L Scarbrough, are hunted two 

 days a week. These harriers now hunt fox as well 

 as hare, and, during the season 1902-3, had killed, 

 down to the end of February, seven brace of the 

 former quarry. The Barnstaple and North Devon, 

 mastered and hunted by Captain Paterson, assisted 

 by Mr. Clarke, show good sport twice a week over a 

 wild, rough country, much of it moorland, with a good 

 deal of pasture. Hares are stout and plentiful, and 

 an occasional wild red deer, which has wandered from 

 Exmoor, affords at times a right good hunt. The pack 

 consists of twelve couples of cross-bred hounds (twenty- 

 one-inch), kennelled at Sowden, near Barnstaple. 

 The Culm Vale are a pack of foot-harriers, kennelled 

 at Craddock, CuUompton, North-east Devon. They 

 number fourteen couples of seventeen-inch pure 

 harriers (entered in the harrier Stud-book), and take 

 the field under the Master, Mr. C. Chester-Master, 

 who hunts them himself, on Wednesdays, with an 

 occasional by-day. Their country lies partly in 

 Devon, partly in Somerset, in territory for the most 

 part hunted by the Tiverton and East Devon foxhounds. 



