CHAPTER III 



SIR WALTER PALK CAREW, BART.: 1829-43 



Popularity — A contemporary appreciation — Kennels at Haccombe and 

 Marley — Sir Henry Seale at Haccombe : quotations from his unpub- 

 lished letters — Limits of country — Hunts some of present Dartmoor 

 country — His keeper warns off the Dartmoor — Courtenay Bulteel 

 unmoved — " The Devon Hotmds " : 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 — Cliff foxes — The 

 Teign crossed : above Shaldon Bridge ; at Netherton ; at the Pleasure 

 House — Tide too high to follow — A great run : Rora to Langamarsh — 

 Hydrophobia — Some harrier packs — A tragedy — Hunt dinner — Curious 

 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 Champernowne, 



" Carew's rich scream so loud and shrill 

 Startles the blackcock on the hill ; 

 It vibrates on the fox's ear, 

 And every hound has caught the cheer ; 

 It gathers up the scattered pack. 

 And claps them on his very back." 



(Dartmoor Days. By E. W. L. Davies.) 



BORN in 1807, and succeeding his father in the 

 Baronetcy in 1830, Sir Walter Carew, as already 

 mentioned, 1 succeeded Mr. King as master in 1829. 

 To his wise and steady administration during four- 

 teen years, we, of a later generation, are largely 

 indebted for the sporting instinct of the farmers of 

 South Devon, which he did so much to foster and 

 develop and which endures to this day. In this 

 he was, no doubt, helped by the advantages of his 



1 See p. 34. 

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