30 THE SOLTH DEVON HUNT 



smaller hounds, including the far-famed '' Let-'em- 

 alones," were scattered among different buyers, 

 including Sir Henrv Carew. Mr. Hammett Drake, 

 Mr. Worth of Worth, and Mr. Hole of Georgeham. 

 Manv were afterwards followed up and got together 

 bv the Reverend J. Russell and Mr. Arthur Harris 

 of HajTie to help in forming the pack with which 

 they shewed such extraordinary^ sport over the Tet- 

 cott and Pencarrow countries in 1828-30.^ 

 Templer then went abroad. 



*' And, now, Remorse I with thee prepared to go, 

 These scenes I leave for wider fields of woe, 

 On foreign shores unheeded tears to shed 

 For bygone bliss and brighter moments fled."- 



Upon his return, a year or so later, he set about 

 building that beautiful house, Sandford Orleigh, 

 commanding the full stretch of the tidal portion of 

 the River Teign on one side, and facing the tors of 

 Dartmoor on the other. 



It was apparently in Templer's day that the 

 Devon Foxhunting Club was founded, under the 

 auspices of which different packs assembled at 

 Chumleigh in North Devon several times in a season 

 to hunt between them for a week or ten days con- 

 secutively. These " Chumleigh Meetings " brought 

 together all the best Devon sportsmen of the day 

 and were festive and jo^-ial gatherings. It was at 

 one of them, when Newton Fellowes was in the 

 chair, that Templer recited his Fare-jcell to my old 

 Horn, which is given at the beginning of this 

 volume. 



Such was the affection in which Templer was 

 held, that we are told that when he had finished 



i Lift o/ rA^e Ser. /. E-jnifJ}.. 



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