SIR HEXRY PAUL SEALE, BART. 83 



Some of the places mentioned, e.g. Holne, Hembury 

 and Xew Bridge, were too far to be reached from 

 the Dartmouth kennels, and, when meeting at such, 

 the pack went overnight to Dorsely, near Totnes, 

 where they were kennelled for that and the night 

 after hunting in a barn beloncrincr to Mr. R. H. 

 "Watson. I have already mentioned this gentleman's 

 name in a casual way. He has been a keen hunting 

 man all his long life, ha^-ing hunted with the Old 

 Berks, the Bicester, the V.W.H., the X. Warwick- 

 shire, the P\i:chley, the Badminton and other good 

 packs, besides a great deal in Devon. And as his 

 first day with hounds was as long ago as 1837, with 

 J. C. Bulteel, he has had time to fit in more sport 

 than falls to the share of most men. Though born in 

 1826. and therefore in the 90th vear of his acre, he is 

 still as active in body and as clear in mind as a man 

 of sixty, but he no longer hunts. 



Mr. Watson says : *' It was always a great treat to 

 hear Sir Henr\"'s fine voice in drawing the coverts, 

 and his horn was a noted one. No day was too long 

 for him. I have left off with him by moonhght at 

 Spitchwick — fox to the rocks. Up to the date of his 

 selling Mount Boone and other lands, he hunted two 

 days a week. He told me that, had he known he 

 should have had so much money left after the sale, he 

 would never have given up his hounds." 



The last observation, however, has reference to the 

 period of Sir Henry's second mastership. 



AMien Mr. Wiidborne took the South Devon, in 

 1851, Sir Henry withdrew to the country below 

 Totnes, which he continued to hunt. 



