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Great credit is due to Mr. Wilcocks and Mr. Rewe of 

 Exeter, the then masters of the Silverton, who, with 

 Mr. A. Pape as huntsman, worked indefatigably to 

 resuscitate hunting in the neglected area. In this 

 effort they were greatly helped by the landowners. 

 Lord Devon in particular, though himself a shooting 

 and not a hunting man, set a magnificent example 

 and was at great pains to restore a head of foxes at 

 and around Powderham. Lord Devon was backed 

 up by Lord Clifford, Sir Robert Newman, Mr. Studd, 

 Miss Short, Mr. Bannatyne, Lord Morley, Mr. J. H. 

 Ley and others. The success of the pack in the 

 field did the rest, and when the joint-masters, in 

 1911, handed over the entire management to Mr. 

 Pape, the Haldon side had quite recovered its 

 position, and, indeed, things were in a more satis- 

 factory condition than they had been for many a 

 year. It is only to be regretted that the number of 

 shootings let to tenants keeps the coverts mostly 

 closed to hounds until Christmas. 



The Silverton is a pack of " irregulars." Its hound- 

 list usually contains the names of some ten couple of 

 foxhounds, a similar number of hounds with a harrier 

 cross and some five or six couple of pure harriers. 

 Some of the hounds are kept strictly to their own 

 game ; others play a dual part, for the Silverton hunt 

 hare one day a week besides their two days with fox. 

 It is no disparagement to regular foxhound kennels 

 to say that this blended pack admirably suits the 

 rather special requirements of the Haldon country. 

 It is my belief that a foxhound can hunt as low or as 

 cold a scent as a harrier, but it is not always that he 

 will take the trouble to do it. Especially is this the 

 case where he is brought occasionally into a bad- 

 scenting country like the Haldon from one carrying 



