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however, gave some dissatisfaction by disregarding- 

 the established rules of stag-hunting, and hence killing 

 many deer out of season. He hunted the country, 

 nevertheless, till 1847, ^"^^ showed good sport 

 enough. Then the present Sir Arthur Chichester took 

 command for one season, and was succeeded by 

 Mr. Theobald, a "foreigner" who had hunted the 

 carted deer in the Cheltenham country, but failed 

 to take a wild deer. In 1850 Mr. George Luxton, of 

 Winkleigh, brought his pack of harriers to hunt the 

 deer, but, not unnaturally, with incomplete success, 

 and in 1851 Captain West, another hunter of carted 

 deer, came to the rescue and showed good sport. Then 

 Mr. Carew, of Colipriest, took command till 1853, 

 when Captain West again appeared, and was received 

 with the enthusiasm which his generosity deserved. 



In 1855 the long interregnum came to an end, and 

 the restoration began with the advent of Mr. Fenwick, 

 a Berkshire gentleman, as tenant of Lord Carnarvon 

 at Pixton House, near Dulverton. He came to the 

 country for the sake of the shooting, and, as he after- 

 wards admitted, had never heard of a "forester" 

 (the local name for a wild deer) in his life ; but such 

 experience of the stag-hunting as could be obtained 

 at that desperate state of the fortunes of the sport 



