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finishing out the day. Though by no means robust 

 in appearance, he was wiry and very hard, and, 

 indeed, is so still. To this day, he wears no waders 

 when fishing, even when he has a long drive home, 

 and yet he is a stranger to rheumatism. Not content 

 with having one son at the front in Flanders who has 

 already been wounded and returned to the firing 

 line, another badly wounded in the Dardanelles, a 

 third invalided home from France, a fourth in the 

 Flying Corps and a fifth with the latest Canadian 

 Contingent, he succeeded, through sheer determina- 

 tion, in getting himself accepted for active service. 

 After serving some months in France with yet a 

 sixth son as his subaltern, he is now commanding a 

 section of an ammunition column near Salonika, and 

 roughing it with the youngest. 



In addition to many of those mentioned in a 

 previous chapter as prominent hunting men and 

 farmers on the Haldon side, Mr. Studd's field in his 

 second mastership often included the following : 

 Captain Neville Thomas of Mellands ; Sir Alfred 

 Fairlie-Cuninghame, Bart., then Mr. Cuninghame, 

 mounted on anything he could get hold of, and very 

 keen ; Dr. de W. Baker, Miss Cann, Messrs. A. and 

 J. McCasland and Mr. Southwood from Dawlish ; 

 the present owner of Luscombe Castle, Mr. P. M. 

 Hoare, and his brother, Mr. Lennox Hoare ; Mr. 

 Reginald Hooper of Starcross ; Miss Bradshaw and 

 her brother ; Mr. Daniell, Kenbury ; The Hon. Mrs. 

 Haverfield, Exeter ; Mrs. Treeby, Ashton Manor ; 

 and Mr. H. Parson, Teignmouth. Mr. Charles 

 Chichester of Kenn was honorary secretary to the 

 hunt. Tom Lambell, the Chudleigh butcher, a 

 thorough sportsman, was so fond of hounds that 

 in the early 'eighties he started a pack, first of 



