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were not all pure foxhounds, for it would have been 

 impossible, without travelling to all the kennels in 

 England, to get them all pure-bred foxliounds, 

 having regard to Templer's standard size, \-iz. not 

 exceedincr nineteen inches. ^ This is confirmed in an 

 unpublished letter from Jack Russell to his friend 

 Christopher Arthur Harris, in which he says he 

 believes Templer did not breed one of his " Let-'em- 

 alones " ; that many came from his uncle's kennel 

 at Lindridge, many from King (who at that time 

 kept harriers) ; that all Templer's friends, J. P. 

 Gilbert and John Bulteel among the number, who 

 possessed " Lilliputians,"' contributed to keep up 

 his pack ; and that Mr. Yeatman (the Reverend 

 Harry Farr Yeatman, who at that time hunted 

 hare, fox or roe-deer in what is now Blackmore Vale 

 country), also sent him many. 



From some of these hounds, too, was bred the 

 pack known in 1850 as The Forest Harriers, 

 which hunted Skerraton Do^vn, Dean Moors, Hanger 

 Down and the Forest of Dartmoor. These Harriers 

 were the property of ^Ir. Servington-Savery, who 

 was a Deputy Ranger of the Forest. - 



Ximrod, who went on a %isit to Stover and hunted 

 with Templer on the 27th September, 1824, makes 

 some interesting observations on the hmitinop of the 

 bag-fox. 



'• Some thoroughbred foxhuntcrs," he writes, " may 

 say there is too much of the bag about Mr. Templer's 

 hunting. This we must all admit ; but in such a 

 country as Devonshire, exceptions to rules and 

 customs may be allowed ; and to insure sport by 

 any means is the grand object. If a covert prove 



^ Nimrod, op. cii. 



* Fores's Guide to the Hounds cj England. 1S50. By G^Iert iThe 

 Bev. E. W. L. Davies). 



