378 STAGHUNTING ON EXMOOR. 



vice-chairman then continues the sitting for 

 another hour or so. 



On the following night the "Town and 

 Trade " of such places is entertained by the 

 hotel keeper who catered for the master's 

 feast, and the remains of the haunch do duty 

 for a second festive night, when the fun is 

 apt to wax fast and furious. 



With the recurrence of the October venison 

 feasts, the seasons, as they come around with 

 each revolving year, draw near to a close, and 

 with this sketch of a time honoured hill country 

 custom this work must come to end. Cover- 

 ing the years from 1887 to 1901, it touches 

 on events not hitherto described, except in 

 cursory form, and strives to bring home by 

 the aid of the photographic studies how the 

 Devon and Somerset Staghounds look to-day 

 amid the beautiful surroundings of their moor- 

 land home. 



