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from kennels at Oakford Lawn, Kingsteignton, Newton 

 Abbot. The hounds consist of fifteen couples of 

 twenty-one-inch pure harriers, mostly old English 

 red or hare-pied, of which I have already made some 

 mention. Few packs are believed to be more free 

 from foxhound strain, or from any appearance of it. 

 Mr. Webster hunts two days a week ; his country 

 consists of pasture and plough in equal proportions, 

 with stretches of moorland (" The Haldons "), now 

 somewhat invaded by barbed wire, and some heavy 

 woodland at Ugbrook, Milber, Luscombe, and elsewhere. 



The Modbury, consisting of eighteen couples of 

 twenty-inch pure harriers, with kennels at Modbury, 

 Ivybridge, hunt a big country, twenty miles square 

 in the territory of the Dartmoor foxhounds. They 

 have been established some fifty years, the present 

 Master, Mr. W. Gage-Hodge, hunting the pack two 

 days a week, with an occasional bye-day. Pasture, 

 plough, and moorland are all found within the limits 

 of the Hunt, and little wire exists. Mr. Netherton's 

 is yet another South Devon pack, hunting a country 

 about twelve miles square, between the Dart and Avon, 

 south of Totnes. One-third of the area lies on Dart- 

 moor, elsewhere there is a good deal of plough, with 

 a small proportion of grass, and a fair amount of wood- 

 land. These hounds, which consist of fourteen couples 

 of pure harriers (twenty-one-inch), have a very ancient 

 history, having been in the hands of the Netherton 

 family, it is said, since the fifteenth century. Mr. L. R. 

 Netherton, of Bowden House, Stoke Fleming, Dart- 

 mouth, has mastered the pack since 1868 and acts as 

 his own huntsman. It is a pleasure to record that there 

 is no wire in the Netherton country. 



The Silverton harriers are another old-fashioned 

 Devonshire pack, which were established as far back 

 as the end of the eighteenth century. Mr. T. Webber 



