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On Mr. Basset's resignation in 1893, Colonel 

 Hornby, who had acted under Lord Coventry as vice- 

 master of the Royal pack, took the hounds, but gave 

 them up again in 1895, ms place being then filled by 

 Mr. R. A. Sanders, who is intimately connected with 

 the country through his marriage with Miss Halliday, 

 of Glenthorne. He has shown excellent sport in his 

 first season and everything augurs well for his success, 

 though he has been severely handicapped, as was 

 Colonel Hornby in 1894, by the death of Andrew 

 Miles, who had for nearly five and twenty years acted 

 as harbourer. 



There is no one connected with a stag-hunting 

 establishment whose duties are more important, or on 

 whom more depends, than the harbourer. It is his 

 task to ascertain by woodcraft the whereabouts of a 

 deer, suitable for the day's sport, so accurately that 

 the animal may be roused without difficulty or delay, 

 and yet so cautiously that he may not be conscious 

 that he is being tracked and observed. All which 

 is easier said than done. 



Du Fouilloux enumerates six distinct signs with 

 which the harbourer should be familiar, namely : the 

 slot, the gait, the entries, the breakages, the fraying, 

 and the fewmet. 



The last are the droppings of the deer, and the old 



