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left without recognition, which was the more due to 

 him inasmuch as the failure of the West of England 

 Bank had deprived him, together with many others, of 

 the earnings of a lifetime; but in less than a year 

 after his resignation of the secretaryship he was carried 

 to Dulverton Churchyard, there to join, after twenty 

 years, the Dulverton veteran who had shared with him 

 the early difficulties of reviving the ancient sport; 

 and not less regretted than he had been. In little more 

 than another year Mr. Bisset also was laid in Bag- 

 borough Churchyard. 



The season of 1884 thus commenced gloomily for 

 all ; and, as misfortunes never come singly, its open- 

 ing was further marked by a fresh outbreak of rabies 

 among the young hounds. The first sufferer was a 

 puppy which had only a short time before arrived from 

 a kennel where the disease had appeared a year before 

 and been suppressed; but the symptoms were un- 

 mistakable and soon showed themselves in another 

 of the entry. So there was nothing to be done but to 

 destroy the whole of the puppies, seven and a half 

 couples, by which means the disease was fortunately 

 stamped out before it had extended to the old 

 hounds. 



Then again on the third day of stag-hunting 



