68 THE SOUTH DEVON HUNT 



we are told that for want of a gate no horse could 

 follow the hounds across Mamhead Park. There is a 

 very old wire fence there now, which may well have 

 been then newly put up to protect the belt of planta- 

 tion on the Oxton side of the park when first planted. 

 The lichen-covered posts and rusty wire harmonize 

 so well with the surrounding bracken and trees, as to 

 be practically invisible in certain lights. I once 

 galloped unconsciously slap into it ; so, on sepa- 

 rate occasions, did Mr. Godfrey Lee and another 

 friend of mine. 



Among the members of the field of those days 

 appear the names of Lord Cranstoun, Mr. Wall of 

 Bradley, Mr. W. E. S. Clack and Mr. Kitson ; and the 

 master's reference to the first flight includes Mr. 

 Short, Mr. H. Swete, Mr. T. Lane and Mr. Luxmoore. 



On leaving Devonshire in 1845, Haworth took over 

 the mastership of the Hampshire Hounds, better 

 known as the H.H.^ He built new kennels at Ropley, 

 but was obliged, much to the regret of the country, 

 to retire in 1847, owing to the subscriptions falling off 

 in consequence of the famine. When he left Devon, 

 he took a part of his pack with him into Hampshire, 

 and, as some of these hounds doubtless figure in the 

 picture of part of his Hampshire pack, I have thought 

 it worth while to reproduce it. At any rate it gives an 

 idea of the type of hound of that day. 



This picture, as also the pictures of two of his 

 horses. Captain Rock and The Barber, are in the 

 possession of Captain Haworth's daughter. Lady 

 Mary Leslie, who tells a quaint story of The Barber. 

 It seems that on their long journeys home after 

 hunting, master and man would sometimes stop for 



1 Baily's Hunting Directory gives his dates as master of the H.H. as 

 J 844 to 1847. It should be 1845 to 1847. 



