214 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



supposed to be hunting hare, they were said to 

 have shown an occasional partiaHty for fox, to 

 which the accounts of the runs they had certainly 

 lent credence. It is said that a neighbouring 

 Master of Hounds, when he was told of a remark- 

 able run with Mr Yeatman's harriers, remarked 

 meaningly, " Well, I should like to make him eat 

 his hare." 



Of Mr Yeatman's mastership there is a record 

 in the old hunting diary from which I have 

 already quoted,^ and which covers the time from 

 1826 to 1831. Three years later Mr Hall be- 

 came Master, and by arrangement with him Mr 

 Portman, who was afterwards the first Viscount 

 Portman, hunted a part of the country from 1831 

 to the year 1840. From 1833, however, Mr Drax 

 had been hunting over his own property near 

 Sherborne, and when on the retirement of Mr 

 Portman he bought the latter's hounds, Mr Drax 

 succeeded to the whole of the Yale Hunt country, 

 of which he retained the mastership until 1853. 



During the whole of this time all the county of 

 Dorset, as well as parts of Somerset and Wiltshire, 

 was nominally under the command of Mr J. J. 

 Farquharson, who from 1806 to 1858 hunted over 

 this immense tract of country. With the accession 

 to office of Mr G. Wingfield Digby, in the year 

 that saw the retirement of Mr J. J. Farquharson, 

 the Blackmore Yale Hounds only hunted over 

 the modern hunt territory. 



1 See p. 5. 



