36 STAGHUNTING WITH THE 



The duties of treasurer, secretary and ad- 

 ministrator of the deer damage fund are combined 

 in the person of Mr. Phihp Evered, who was 

 elected on the resignation of Mr. A. C. E. Locke 

 in 1894. 



KennelHng the pack is a very ordinary and 

 necessary function, and when the body of the 

 pack has been consigned to a cool and airy 

 building, and the desired number of hounds, 

 generally from four to tiye couples in the stag- 

 hunting season, have been called out by name 

 hy the huntsman, he leaves the kennel door and 

 counts over the chosen draft. One of the Hunt 

 second horsemen has his first mount, generally 

 a tufting pony, in readiness, and the master 

 usually takes this opportunity of checking ofi 

 by name each hound that is to take part in the 

 all -important duty of the clay. Near by the 

 harbourer is waiting, ready mounted to conduct 

 the huntsman to the lair of the forest king, 

 that he has been watching for hours past with 

 the trusty Zeiss glasses, now slung from his 

 shoulder. These glasses were presented to him 

 by a subscription raised amongst the followers 

 of the hunt a few years since, and are of the 

 greatest assistance to him in his arduous and 

 difficult calling. Through a vista of trees a gate- 

 way can be seen from the kennel door at 

 Cloutsham, with the outline of the moor on the 

 western end of Dunkery just visible, and it is 



