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" I sing of a party aasembJed at Stover 

 To hunt in tbe momii^ and feast whai 'twas over." 



{A Party ^ Stovfr. By Geo. Templer, 1823.) 



TO the accomplished George Templer of Stover 

 belongs the distinction of having been the master 

 of the first regular pack of foxhounds that hunted the 

 country- which in later years came to be known as 

 " The South Devon,"' It is known that hounds existed 

 in the countiy before his day, for his uncle, the 

 Reverend John Templer of Lindridge, kept a pack at 

 that place, but a great -grandnephew of the latter, 

 Captain J. G. E. Templer. the present owner of Lind- 

 ridge, tells me he has always understood that the 

 Lindridge hounds were harriers, though, he adds, they 

 probably hunted '*an\i:hing that jumped up." The 

 Lindridge kennels were near the house, in what until 

 quite recently was called the Kennel Pit, lately con- 

 verted into a rock garden and christened '* The Dell.'' 



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