CHAPTER VIII 



SIR HENRY PAUL SEALE, BART.: SECOND 

 MASTERSHIP, 1856-6.5 



Again extends country to include South Devon — Actually master of the 

 South Devon — The Field quoted — The late Mr. R. F. Rendell's accovmt 

 of a great run : " The Conqueror " conquered — Dick Tucker and liis covrs 

 — Story of Mr. T. C. Kellock — A latter-day hiint in Sir Henry's old country 

 — Powers as hvmtsman — Withdraws to his old coimtry — Sixteen times 

 Mayor of Dartmouth — His great age — Revival of hunting in his old 

 country — Mr. Cubitt at Fallapit — Pack known as " Mr. CXibitt's Hotmds " 

 — Mr. W. F. Brimskill starts a new pack — His good intentions frustrated — 

 Hound sale at Totnes — Purchases by jNIr. Whidbome for the South Devon. 



" ' Buller of Dean, give me the head ; 

 You take the brush,' Trelawny said ; 

 ' Go bear it to your infant boy, 

 And deck his cradle with the toy.' " 



{Dartmoor Days.) 



ON Mr. \ATiidborne's resignation at the end of 

 the season 1855-6, Sir Henry Scale bought his 

 hounds and again extended his own country to 

 include what then constituted the South Devon 

 country, or at any rate a considerable portion of it. 

 As far as can be judged (he w^as very irregular in 

 sending his appointments to the Field), he did not 

 very often hunt the country above Totnes. Still, 

 though the pack retained his name, he was actually 

 and of right the master of the South Devon country, 

 no other master appearing until 1865, when Mr. 

 Westlake came into office. In the Field of January 

 9th, 1864, Sir Henry Scale's hounds are advertised 

 to meet at Berry, and in the same issue of that paper 



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