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when the tide permitted. Doubtless the channel had 

 not then been dredged to its present depth. Even so, 

 one cannot help thinking how thankful one would 

 have been to find the tide too high for the adventure. 



On the other hand, the line taken was on many 

 occasions just such as we should expect a fox to 

 choose to-day. This applies in particular to the 

 Haldon country. 



So far as one can judge, out of many good runs one 

 of the best and longest was that from Rora Wood on 

 the 12th January, 1843, the line being by Bickington 

 to Bagtor and the granite works at Heytor, over the 

 moor to Buckland, through the woods there, across 

 the Dart and to ground at Whitewood and Langa- 

 marsh. Sir Henry Scale, who was then in command, 

 speaks of this as an extraordinary run. 



Naturally we find, interwoven with much excellent 

 and sometimes brilliant sport, days and periods of 

 failure and disappointment ; records of fog, bad 

 scent, no sport, impossible weather and blank days, 

 as on the day when all the country from Skerraton to 

 Stover was drawn without finding ! The difficulties 

 of earth-stopping are also apparent throughout the 

 journal, but we find only one instance mentioned of 

 a three-legged fox being killed. 



In the summer of 1838, Sir Walter Carew suffered 

 the greatest misfortune that can befall a master of 

 hounds, for hydrophobia broke out in the kennels, 

 with the result that he was not able to hunt the dog- 

 hounds before November. From this statement it 

 looks as if the whole pack was not attacked. 



In the season 1831-2, the master started hunting 

 dogs and bitches separately and sometimes hunted 

 as many as three and four days a week. 



In those days, packs of harriers were numerous in 



