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commons it is found in much greater luxuriance. It 

 is on lieatli that most sport is found for autumn and 

 spring hunting — the other section of the country 

 forming a great nursery for foxes and an excellent 

 school for cubhunting. It is here that the young 

 entry are taught — or^ rather, teach themselves — to 

 work, and turn, and twist, and come to cry. In no 

 country is a silent hound worth more than a yard or 

 two of rope ; in Devonshire especially, he can never 

 1)6 tolerated a moment. Throughout the Dulverton 

 country foxes are well-preserved and fairly plentiful. 

 A blank day has long been a very rare occurrence — 

 Mr. Froude-Bellew having only met with three during 

 his seven seasons of command. 



The chief landed proprietors in the Hunt are Lords 

 Carnarvon, Portsmouth, Clinton and Poltimore; Sir 

 Kobert Thro gmor ton. Sir Thomas Acland, Messrs. Locke, 

 H. Devon, Jekyll, Llewellyn, Knight, Mildmay, Rolle, 

 Lucas, T. Daniel, J. Daniel, Bere, Collyns, and Beadon 

 — all of whom thoroughly preserve foxes, and support 

 the M.F.H. Amongst the yeomen, who in the West 

 especially deserve the title of the backbone of hunting, 

 may be mentioned the names of Messrs. Lyddon, 

 Chorley, Joyce, W. Halse, Vearncombe, John and 

 James Japp, Westcott, Kelland, Beedle, Moore (2), 

 Dascombe, Baker, &c. The Devonshire chronicles 

 have ever been replete with names ranking high in the 

 world of foxhunting. In late years mark those of 

 Fellows, Portsmouth, Templer, Trelawney, Rolle, 

 Carew, Froude, Russell, and Deacon — all Devon-born- 

 and-bred, and hunting-taught amid the hills and downs 

 of this unrideable, but most sport-loving county. 



