2 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



sayings was, that a man was no good in the hunt- 

 ing-field if he could not finish as well as begin. 

 Many a time also I have heard him say, " If you 

 keep down wind of the hounds, they are sure to 

 come to you," and when riding to hounds I have 

 borne this in mind, and by my own experience 

 have proved its truth. It was always a delight to 

 listen to accounts of the runs of bygone days, for 

 as my father had a very retentive memory, he 

 would describe the incidents that happened in 

 them, and thus bring the whole scene vividly 

 before us. 



At the time when he was hunting in Dorset, 

 some of the keenest men with hounds were clergy- 

 men, and very remarkable characters they were. 



The Rev. Harry Farr Yeatman, of Stock House, 

 owned a pack of hounds with which he hunted fox, 

 hare, and roe-deer in the Stock coverts and parts 

 of Somersetshire. These hounds were dwarf fox- 

 hounds, and only stood twenty or twenty - one 

 inches, but they had been drawn from all the best 

 kennels in England by Mr George Templar of 

 Devonshire, from whose possession they passed to 

 that of Mr Yeatman in the year 1826. The roe- 

 deer which this pack often hunted were brought 

 into the country by Lord Dorchester, and from 

 that time to the present they have lived in the 

 woods and hills of the wilder districts. 



A good old yeoman of Stalbridge, named William 

 Harris, was entered with Mr Yeatman's hounds, 

 and was fond of telling the story of his first day in 



