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from which the pack was drawn — Nimrod on the bag-fox — 

 Templer'B contemporaries — Hunting hareB and coursing rabbita 

 with a pack of foxes — Jack Russell on the subject — Financial diffi- 

 culties — Verses on leaving Stover — Disposal of the pack — The 

 Devon Foxhunting Club — His old horn. 



II. John King of Fowlescombe : 1827-9 . pages 33-40 



A misconception — Its origin — Mr. Reginald Templer's explana- 

 tion — Harris's description of master and pack — " Mr. King's 

 Hounds" — Country him ted — Fixtures — Sir Walter Carew's Hunting 

 Journal — Record of sport — Hunting from Chximleigh — Additional 

 fixtures — Visit of Bulteel's Hounds — Probable inauguration of the 

 Ivybridge week — A long draw — Some hunting men of that day — 

 Mr. Pode of Slade — King takes the Hambledon — A serious accident 

 — Founder of the Hambledon Hunt Club — The New Sporting 

 Magazine — King of Fowlescombe identical with King of Corhampton 

 — Story of a mallard — The South Devon Harriers — Death in the 

 saddle on Dartmoor. 



III. Sir Walter Palk Carew, Bart. : 1829-43 



pages 41-59 



Popularity — A contemporary appreciation — Kennels at Haccombe 

 and Marley — Sir Henry Seale at Haccombe : quotations from his 

 unpublished letters — Limits of country — Hunts some of present 

 Dartmoor coimtry — His keeper warns off the Dartmoor — Courtenay 

 Bulteel immoved — " The Devon Hounds " : a private pack — 

 Hunting Journal — John Beal : contemporary tributes — Bag-foxes 

 — The box-trap — Wild and healthy bagmen — A six-hours' hunt — 

 A magnificent run — Country hunted — The Ivybridge meeting — 

 Lines of country — Clif? foxes — The Teign crossed : above Shaldon 

 Bridge ; at Netherton ; at the Pleasure-House — Tide too high to 

 follow — A great nm : Rora to Langamarsh — Hydrophobia — Some 

 harrier packs — A tragedy — Hunt dinner — Ctu-ious case of a vixen — 

 Visits to Eggesford — Sport in North Devon — Jack Russell's Hounds 

 at Haccombe — Resignation — An all-round sportsman — A Carew and 

 a Champemowne. 



IV. Captain Martin E. Haworth : 1843-5 . pages 60-70 



Family connections — The Devon Harriers and their doings : Sir 

 Henry Seale's opinion — The Devon Hounds — Kennels near Powder- 

 ham — Guest at Eggesford — A run through twelve parishes — 

 Anstruther Thomson's criticism : a critic at fault — Where a hard 

 and fast rule fails — Inconvenient position of kennels — A notable 

 hunting diary — Chief fixtures of that day — The master's keenness — 

 Good sport — Bag-foxes given up — " Shaking a fox " — A notable 

 run — Fox in otter's holt — Scent in snow — A point from Stover to 

 Heine Bridge — Other memorable runs — A master's troubles : was 

 wire among them ?— Some of his field— Takes the H. H. — Lady 

 Mary Leslie's story of " The Barber " — An active terrier — The 

 Silvrr Oreyhound and Road Scrapings — Tom Clark whipper-in 

 to the Devon — Becomes huntsman to the Craven, Old Berkshire and 

 Badminton — The Duke's opinion. 



