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bought Viceroy at the Rugby sale and has had great 

 success with him. 



Although only pledged to two days a week, the 

 new master, like his predecessor, hunted three days 

 regularly. Mr. Singer had renewed the cultivation 

 of the lower side of the country, " Sir Henry Scale's 

 old country " as it is sometimes called. That being 

 Mr. Brunskill's home country, he very naturally set 

 himself to develop it, and the extra day, the Thursday, 

 generally found hounds in that part. With such a 

 wide territory at his disposal, Mr. Brunskill had no 

 use for the Haldon side, and, accordingly, the com- 

 mittee, subject to certain safeguards, acceded to the 

 request of the then master of the Haldon Harriers, 

 Mr. Ernest Studd, a son of Mr. E. F. Studd of Oxton, 

 to be allowed to keep the foxes moving on Haldon. 

 From one cause and another, the harriers did not 

 make much use of the permission, and in January, 

 1909, the Haldon side was formally loaned by the 

 year to the Silverton Hunt, then under the joint- 

 mastership of Messrs. C. L. Wilcocks and H. G. Rew 

 and hunted by Mr. A. G. Pape, who, a few years 

 later, succeeded those gentlemen in the mastership. 

 This arrangement has been renewed annually from 

 that time to the present, a reservation of a right for 

 the South Devon to draw the Lindridge, Luscombe 

 and Ugbrooke coverts being occasionally inserted, but 

 never yet acted upon. As the Silverton did not want 

 that part of the Haldon country that lies west of the 

 River Teign, this portion, which comprised the 

 Hennock and Canonteign country, was in 1910 

 loaned for a year to the Mid-Devon, of which Colonel 

 Carter was at that time master, and the loan has from 

 time to time been renewed. Colonel Carter was also 

 to be allowed what some would consider the rather 



