2. THE NEWTON SIDE 

 CHAPTER XV 



AUGUSTUS F. ROSS: SECOND MASTERSHIP, 1879-82 



Mr. E. Fearnley Tanner hunts the Newton side 1878-9 — " Dart and Teign 

 Foxhounds " — Inadequate support — Afterwards keeps a private pack — 

 Kennels at Hawson Court — Has a bad fall — Three good runs — Mr. 

 Augustus Kingston hon. sec. — Mr. Ross again comes forward — Appointed 

 master — No guarantee — Keruiels at Ambrook — Arthur Mason huntsman 

 — Philip Back returns as whipper-in — His subsequent career — Some runs 

 — Hunt breakfast at Cockington Court — Some of the field — The pack 

 visits Sir Henry Scale's old country : a good nm and those who saw it — 

 Personal recollections — Mr. Ross as a falconer — As a musician — Resigna- 

 tion — Offer of hotmds — The Newton side claimed by the masters of the 

 Haldon — Claim suspended and Mr. Hemming's offer accepted — Mr, 

 Hemming's disappearance — The country reverts to Mr. Whidbome and 

 Mr. Studd. 



" Adhesive by nature to hounds and the table 

 He neither would leave while to stay he was able." 



(A Party at Stover.) 



FOR the first season, 1878-9, after partition 

 of the country, the Newton side was hunted 

 by Mr. E. Fearnley Tanner, then hving at Hawson 

 Court, Buckfastleigh. At the meeting at which Mr. 

 Tanner's offer to hunt the Newton side was first 

 made it was proposed to call the pack " The Dart 

 and Teign Foxhounds," and a circular inviting sub- 

 scriptions was actually sent out under this title. 

 Perhaps it was thought that the new pack on the 

 Haldon side would assume the name " South Devon." 

 At any rate, the " Dart and Teign " idea was dropped, 

 and Mr. Tanner became master of the " South 

 Devon." 



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