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management, he would present them with his large 

 draft. 



" A start having been made towards raising a pack, 

 the next question was how that pack was to be kept 

 up. A meeting was held on the 23rd to consider the 

 subject, and finally, after a vast deal of talk without 

 any substantial support being promised, it was agreed 

 by Mr. Fenwick that he would undertake to hunt the 

 country for one season, trusting entirely to the 

 liberality of the country to supply him with requisite 

 funds, without making any conditions as to amount of 

 support, &c., and that, should the subscriptions fall 

 short of the required sum, it should be entirely at his 

 discretion to give up the staghounds at once. In fact, 

 though there was great plausible support and confi- 

 dent assurances that there would be ample support 

 from those who had been staunch supporters in former 

 years, there were evidently great misgivings as to what 

 support the staghounds of this day might find ; and, 

 as it proved, those misgivings were not without 

 foundation. Thus Mr. Bisset, though but a novice, 

 and with much reluctance, undertook the mastership, 

 and thus were established the Devon and Somerset 

 staghounds." 



It was characteristic of Mr. Bisset (for he soon after 



