The Rev. Wyer Honey, M.H, 151 



a little brown horse. There were thirty -three jumps in the 

 three-mile course, and the horse led throughout. Mr. Honey 

 has judged at hunter, hack, and harness classes at nearly all the 

 shows, local and otherwise, held in Devonshire. 



He has been the vicar of Peter's Marland for about fourteen 

 years, and is said to be nearly as good in the pulpit as he is 

 across a country. His method is to make fairly full notes, 

 amounting to about half the sermon, and to fill in the rest by 

 inspiration as he goes along. 



The Marland harriers and their followers owed much to Mr. 

 Honey's management and energy. I give a detailed description 

 of this hunt establishment, as it is a typical one, and shows the 

 amount of work and devotion it entails on those responsible for 

 its management when the wheels have to go round without the 

 all-powerful lubrication of an ample subscription list. 



Let the great Nabobs who calculate the expenses of running 

 a foxhound country on the " One thousand a day " principle 

 {i.e., two days a week, two thousand a year ; four days a week, 

 four thousand a year, etc.) pay attention to this story of the 

 Marland subscription harriers. 



A good many years ago the country was hunted by a pack 

 owned by Colonel Moore Stevens, but it was given up. When 

 Mr. Honey took the living of Peter's Marland, near Torrington, 

 he set about reviving them. First of all he gained the good-will 

 of the tenants and landlords ; then hares had to be bought and 

 turned down, as they had become very scarce since the former 

 pack ceased to exist. Finally a meeting was held, at which 

 Colonel Moore Stevens was elected master, and Mr. Honey 

 huntsman, of the newly-established pack of sixteen-inch 

 beagles. This was in 1910 ; two years later they were turned 

 into harriers, the hares having done their duty nobly, and 

 the stock increasing rapidly. 



This part of Devonshire is a country of small fields enclosed 

 by big, unkempt banks which are difficult obstacles for beagles 

 to negotiate, and impede the pack much more than they do the 

 hare. No doubt this was one of the chief reasons why the pack 

 was changed into eighteen to eighteen-and-a-half-inch harriers, 

 sixteen couples being kept. 



Some of the vicarage outbuildings were turned into kennels, 

 and at first the honorary secretary acted as whipper-in on 



