CONTENTS 



Preface ..... 

 List of Works Consulted . 

 List of Illustrations 

 Chronological Table of Masters 

 Introduction .... 



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xiu 



XXV 



XXVll 



Nimrod on Devonshire hunting — His limitations as a critic — 

 Satisfaction of overcoming difficulties — Dialect and nomenclature — 

 Character of the country — Moor and "In-country" — Limits of the 

 hunt — Banks and walls — Scenting qualities — Wet weather on Haldon 

 — Scent on Dartmoor — " Hectors of the Moor " — Fascination of 

 Dartmoor — Exmoor and Dartmoor contrasted — Wire — Attitude 

 of new landowners — Ignorance of country usage — Mire and bog — 

 An unpleasant adventure — The right type of hound — Difference of 

 opinion — Patience versus pace — A hunt without a pack of its own 

 — Type of horse — Mr. Whidbome's stamp — Harriers and foxhounds 

 aa neighbours — The Dart Vale and Haldon — Dearth of hunting 

 landowners — Shooting tenants and their keepers — A claim for 

 find-money — Question of legal liability — The farmers good friends 

 to hunting — Damage Fund — Generous behaviour of Mr. Ward 

 Wreford — Presentation on his retirement — Financial difficulties — 

 Subscription — Ethics of capping — Mr. Reginald Herbert's opinion 

 — The field — Unbroken succession of masters — Loans of country — 

 Plan of present work — Difficulties of treatment — Chronological 

 table of masters. 



I. THE ORIGINAL COUNTRY 



I. George Templer of Stover: 18 — to 1826 . pages 19-32 



Early mention of hounds at Lindridge — Family history — Harris 

 quoted — A Stover draft for Belvoir : letter from Lord Robert 

 Maruiers — Stamp of Stover hounds — Unpublished letter from 

 " Jack Russell " — Nimrod quoted — Quicker style of hunting — 

 Control over animals : a hunting monkey — General appreciation — 

 A " Memorable Triumvirate " : Templer, Taylor and Russell — His 

 system of hunting bag-foxes — The " Let-'em-Alones " — Sources 



