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with Mr Yeatman, undertook to hunt a portion 

 of the latter Master's country ; but though he 

 had a great deal to do with the management of 

 matters for some years, he was only the recog- 

 nised Master for one season. Mr Tudway of 

 Wells, who bought some of Mr Hall's hounds 

 when the latter gave up, and hunted in the 

 neighbourhood of Wells, had some of the Black- 

 more Vale coverts lent to him, and when Mr 

 Theobald succeeded Mr Tudway, those coverts 

 were still hunted by his hounds. 



An accident that my father had cause to re- 

 member happened to him when he was out with 

 Mr Tudway's hounds. They had run a fox very 

 hard, and at last it took refuge under a hawthorn- 

 tree, and setting up his back kept the hounds at 

 bay. The first rider to reach them was my father, 

 and he, springing from his horse, grasped the fox 

 by the neck and brush and lifted him over his 

 head. As he did so, the fox fixed his teeth into 

 his wrist and held on tenaciously, giving him a 

 very severe bite. It is a thing to remember that 

 when a fox is handled he is never happy till he 

 gets something tight between his teeth to which 

 he can hang, and once he has this you can 

 generally take hold of him safely. In Hampshire, 

 where traps are constantly put down and left by 

 poachers on the heath commons, I have often 

 released both foxes and hounds by giving them 

 my hunting crop to gnaw while I set them free. 

 On one occasion I heard a hound near Bramshill 



