EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 35 



Exmoor from boyhood, and he has been at 

 considerable pains in collecting information 

 on topics which do not usually come within 

 the scope of a guide-book as for example, 

 the breed of Exmoor sheep, the eccentricities 

 of Exmoor ponies, and the ancient breed of 

 red deer. The first part tells the story of the 

 forest from Saxon times down to the year 1818, 

 up to which date it ranked as a royal forest. 

 The first chapter of Part I. tells of it under 

 the Briton, Saxon, and Dane. Chapter II. 

 is devoted to forest law and forest life, and 

 Chapter III. to the decline of the forest. Then 

 we come to the Doones, whose story is pretty 

 fully discussed in Chapter IV. Chapters V. 

 and VI. describe the roads, the sport, and 

 who kept the hounds from the days of the 

 Tudors down to the days when his late 

 Majesty King Edward VII. hunted there in 

 the autumn of 1879 ' m the company of that 

 venerable sportsman, the Rev. John Russell, 

 familiarly known as "Jack Russell." 



Part II. is devoted to the animals of the 

 forest deer, ponies, and sheep and Part III. 

 introduces a very amusing little drama entitled 

 " An Exmoor Courtship : or, a Suitoring Dis- 



