CHAPTER XX 



MR. ROBERT VICARY AND MPw. WWSHIN'GTON 

 M. G. SINGER, ISPT-IPOI 



viUi the oonntry — ^A tiinely oner — Appointed joint-masters — 

 WmrtfiniBWTB — OAer fzooMes — Collings still huntsman — Frank CoUings — 

 A new mbapper-ia — Tfagie deslh of Collings : killed at an earth — 

 Caiandty far the Hiait — Mr. E. P. Bovey appointed to succeed him — A 

 good zim — Beecsd of ^MSt — ^A day of disasters — Bovey joins the Imperial 

 YeoBianiy — Killed in action in Hie Boer Wax — Choules promoted to 

 faooiBnian — Sir John Amray's Sta^ioands in South Devon — Mr. Vicary 

 as a mwrifem an — ffis 1p*"»*J of fox-terriers widely known — World-wide 

 npaftaticn as a judge of dog or hound — List of places at which he has 

 judged — His eye fat hoond or hnse — Sets about improving the pack — 

 His fntperience of other oountzies — The pack — Some favourite hounds — 

 TCgwnfJtt most t^ofii^ — His horses — Scms and other members of the 

 faadfy — Bevives Kewton Abbot Ste^lechases : the arrangements 

 lemodeDed aztd improved — ^Resigns and leaves Mr. Singer to carry on. 



" The brave pack meanwhile rivalled swallows for speed, 

 Anl dli j-astice to him who had managed their breed." 



(Thp. C?.umleigh Club. By Geo. Templer, 1B14.) 



MR. ROBERT VICARY has been a staunch 

 supporter of the South Devon for a great 

 number of yeai^ and a keen follower of the pack from 

 his boyhood, now longer ago than he cares to brood 

 upon, and Mr. Singer, who will be treated of in the 

 next chapter, had, for some years prior to Mr. 

 St. 3Iaur's resignation, identified himself with the 

 hunt and the countn,'. 



It v.as a fitting thing that these two gentlemen, in 

 a most public-spirited manner, should offer their 

 services to the country* at a moment when it appeared 

 that, for the first time in the history of the hunt, the 



