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one season, after which he was succeeded by Mr. 

 George Luxton, of Winkleigh. Captain West suc- 

 ceeded Mr. Luxton, and was followed by Mr. Tom 

 Carevv, of Collipriest, who resigned in 1853. For a 

 short time Captain West stopped the gap. Then in 

 1855 Mr. Fen wick Bisset assumed command of the 

 famous pack — 



" Over some wide water'd shore 

 Swinging slow with sudden roar." 



After i860, Mr. Boyce, of Withypoole, became the 

 chronicler of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds ; 

 but I am not aware that his chronicles were ever 

 published in volume form. If they were so pubhshed, 

 it must have been only for private circulation. The 

 chronicles of Mr. Charles Palk Collyns were published 

 in volume form in 1862 by Messrs. Longman, Green, 

 Longman and Roberts, and, if only for the excellence 

 of the illustrations, most of which are tinted photo- 

 lithographs, are worthy of a place on the shelves of a 

 sportsman's library. 



When the Rev. John Russell kept a pack of fox- 

 hounds at Hatherleigh in 1826, within a short distance 

 of which place the Rev. W. H. Karslake, of Dolton, 

 kept harriers, while the Rev. Peter Glub was also 

 hunting foxes in the district, he received the following 

 letter :— 



" Honor'd Sir, — Do ee plaise bring up the dogs first 

 chance ; us a got a fine litter, sure enough, up to 

 Hollacomb Bucks. They'm up full growed a month 

 agone ; and last night was a week, what must em do 



