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write. That the master was fairly confident of 

 victory may be inferred from his answer to Mr. 

 Rendell's question as to when they would meet 

 again : " Not until after I have won the Leger ! " 



A litter of cubs was rattled about Birch Tor and a 

 mangy one disposed of. Then another, similarly 

 afflicted, took a ring from Sousand by Warren Inn 

 and back, and then by Grendon, Cator and Riddon 

 Mire to Snailshouse and Laughter Tor and back to 

 Belliver Bridge and Pizwell Bog, where the pack 

 unluckily changed on to a fresh one, crossed the 

 Moreton road and ran to Stannon and Hartland Tor, 

 where, as he was pointing for the bogs, hounds were 

 stopped. ]\Ir. Rendell had left home that morning 

 at 4.20 and got back at four o'clock in the after- 

 noon. This was a hard day so early in the season, 

 especially for the eight couple of young hounds 

 out. Only one of these was missing at the end, 

 and she turned up three hours later. In the course 

 of the run, the Dart was crossed three times, and the 

 hounds ran into four countries — the South Devon, 

 Dartmoor, Mid-Devon and Lamerton. 



Another red-letter day, and one that shews that 

 hounds could give a good account of themselves in 

 the in-country as well as on the moor, was the 14th 

 December, 1905, when they met at Huxhams Cross. 

 The pack literally raced from North Wood across the 

 Huxhams Cross — Staverton Bridge road, up by the 

 river to Hood Bridge and Hood Ball, to Velwell and 

 Higher Velwell, to Long Lane below Three Gates, 

 past Allerton House, to the left over Whiteley and 

 back over the brook to Yarner Beacon nearly to 

 Lownard ; then to Bellamy and up the valley to 

 Westcombe, on to Cames Do^\ti Barn, into the 

 Dartmoor country and by Rattery Lane and Bulka- 



