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hounds are driving at their fastest ; the Duchess 

 of Hamilton knows her way on Dunkery ; Sir 

 WiUiam Karslake has for many a year been a 

 member of the Hunt Committee, varying the 

 toil of government at Somerset House with the 

 welcome relaxation of a gallop over the heather 

 and the grass ; Lord Poltimore is to be seen at 

 the Cuzzicombe Post meets, which lie nearest 

 to his North Molton residence at Court Hall ; 

 Sir C. T. D. Acland, the owner of the field 

 and of some very large slices of red deer land, 

 is generally to be found at the first meets, and 

 Mr. Luttrell has not far to come from Dunster 

 Castle ; while Viscount Ebrington, the ow^ner of 

 Exmoor proper, chairman of the Hunt Com- 

 mittee and field master on those days when 

 Mr. Sanders himself carries the huntsman's horn, 

 is sure to be present. 



Mr. Nicholas Snow, the proprietor of the 

 famous sanctuary for deer, has come across the 

 moor ; the member for West Somerset, Vice- 

 Chamberlain and Treasury Whip, Sir Alexander 

 Acland Hood, has travelled from Saint Audries ; 

 Mr. Basset, of Watermouth Castle, and former 

 Master of the Staghounds, is to be seen ; and 

 the Baroness Le Clement de Taintegnies is 

 dispensing hospitality to an admiring circle. 

 Amongst masters and ex-masters of hounds, who 

 naturally form a large section of the field, the 

 Hon. J. L. Bathurst, the Hon. C. W. Bampfylde 



