SIR WALTER PALK CAREW, BART. 43 



1842-3, that he spent at Baggrave Hall, Leicester- 

 shire, his friend, Sir Henry Seale, went to stay at 

 Haccombe and took command of the pack in his 

 absence. The letters of Sir Henry Seale, or ^Ir. 

 Seale as he then was (for his father was still living), 

 to the absent master are interesting and 's\'ill be 

 quoted from time to time in these pages. In them we 

 read how the field on the Haldon side " must begin 

 to think yoiu: hounds can kill their foxes ; Luxmore 

 was grumbling because the fixture for Monday is 

 Bradleigh ; they want us on the other side of Haldon 

 every day. . . . Old Short is the best ; I find he has 

 a little consideration for the hounds " ; how " we 

 have killed a fox for every day as yet, as you will 

 see by the kennel door " (that was up to Clu-istmas) ; 

 how, of a " most brilliant biu'st " from Powderham 

 to Haldon House with a kill in the open, " Bulteel 

 says he had not seen anything like it for years. 

 Lord Devon was delighted " ; how, speaking of 

 another run, " you would have enjoyed this run ; it 

 lasted about thirty-five minutes at a racing pace. 

 It must be a very good fox to do more before your 

 hounds over the open in the condition they are in at 

 present " ; how, " I caught one \4xen by the brush 

 among the rocks and held her up, but while I was 

 trying to put my whip into her mouth she gave a 

 spring and got away." His many remarks on 

 individual hounds shew him to have been a careful 

 observer and an enthusiast, as : "I wish Manager 

 in shape and make was like Brilliant, so that you 

 could like him ; he did work to-day in style." 



x\gain, in sending Sir Walter particulars of the 

 proposed draft : " The hounds are all so good that 

 we have had great difficulty in deciding which are 

 the ones that may go if you approve. . . . We put 



