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at the Sands. He took the pack through Lindridge 

 across the River Teign at Netherton Point and 

 saved his brush in the rocks above Abbotskerswell. 

 This was on the last day of the year 1839. 



On the 22nd November, 184^1, a Stover fox turned 

 down at Sandy Gate was killed in Teignmouth after 

 a very good run. No doubt he was making for the 

 cliffs.' 



On the 31st December, 184:2, a turned-out fox ran 

 over Little Haldon to the Parson and Clerk cliff and 

 was killed. And on the 5th of January, 1843, 

 another, after taking a big ring through Harcombe, 

 Ugbrooke, by Ideford to Colly Lane, was killed at the 

 Warren, Starcross. xA.nd yet another was killed in 

 Teignmouth on the 6th February in the same year 

 after a run from Sandy Gate. 



The above instances and others to be found in the 

 journal sufficiently prove the stoutness and condition 

 of the turned-out fox ; and the number that escaped 

 (I have recorded chiefly those killed) is evidence 

 that they were given fair play and a good start. 



The country hunted by Sir Walter was much the 

 same as that covered by his predecessor, John King. 

 It embraced a wide range and included fixtures as 

 far apart as Dartmouth, Killerton, Pynes, ^^^litestone 

 Wood, Great Fulford and Skerraton. Some others, 

 further west, such as Ivybridge, are mentioned only 

 in connection with the Ivybridge meeting and were 

 doubtless " by invitation," but Erme Bridge appears 

 to have been one of his own fixtures. 



It is interesting to note certain lines of country, 

 frequent in those days, but which are rarely taken by 

 hounds to-day. The cliffs on the seashore on either 

 side of the mouth of the Teign were much resorted to 

 by foxes. Probably, though in a less degree, this is 



