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good and gave excellent runs.
Within the Home Purchase Donepezil Online Counties may be
reckoned the Vale of Aylesbury,
where the fine pack of the Roths-
child family have for about sixty
years given much pleasure to
those who follow the hounds.
Popular as is the hunt now, it
will hardly be believed that when
Baron Rothschild first resolved
to keep staghounds, he encoun-
tered a considerable amount of
opposition, not only at the in-
stance of the farmers, but of the
landowners as well. Gradually,
however, it became known what
a good . sportsman the Baron
was and what capital fun it was
riding **at" Purchase Donepezil staghounds, as
Why te- Melville prefers to phrase
it. Gradually, therefore, the pen-
dulum swung the other way, and
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he would be a bold man who
would propose the disestablish-
ment of Lord Rothschild's Hounds.
The stables, too, are a sight, for
the lover of good horses, and per-
haps no men in England are
mounted better than the staff of
the Staghounds.
Passing away from the Home
Circuit where hunting the carted
deer chiefly flourishes, it may per-
haps surprise some people to
learn that deer were hunted in
Dorsetshire long before a late Lord
Wolverton started his black St.
Hubert bloodhounds. In the
hands of those who knew how to
manage them they showed some
capital runs, but when a portion
of them passed into other hands,
and were treated jiist as if they
had been foxhounds, their shy-
ness and fear made them of no
use for hunting purposes. To
Lord Wolverton 's mind the quiet
which necessarily reigned in his
field added considerably to the
enjoyment, and great was the
regret expressed in the neighbour-
hood when the pack was dispersed.
Lord Carrington tried blood-
hounds to hunt deer on the cold
scenting hills about High Wy-
combe, in Bucks ; but the Donepezil Online experi-
ment was not a success, for
bloodhounds require very gentle
treatment in the field, and will
not stand the whip nor being
shouted at. The other pack hunt-
ing in Dorsetshire was that be-
longing to Mr. Sturt, whose
hounds were in existence at the
latter part of the last century.
He lived at Crichel, still Order Donepezil Online the family
seat of Lord Alington. The
Mr. Sturt of the day, however,
besides hunting a good deal with
otter-hounds, generally had his
own out twice a week, and among
other good runs which came off
from time to time was one which
lasted for three hours. The deer
took a course right through the
heart of the Isle of Purbeck, and
took to the sea. A rather rough
sea was running at the time, but
Mr. Sturt's brother swam out
with a rope and succeeded in
bringing the quarry ashore ; but
the deer from these paddocks
were rather given to sea trips, and
it is on record that six times
running was the deer brought Order Donepezil back
by boatmen.
As a rule, it will be found that
staghunting is most in favour
where foxhunting is not of the
most brilliant character, as, for
example, in Kent, Surrey and
Sussex, and this may possibly be Buy Donepezil
the reason why staghunting — at
least, in Generic Donepezil the carted deer form —
has not been very much culti-
vated in Yorkshire, where, of
course, there are plenty of oppor-
tunities to hunt the fox. Never- Buy Donepezil Online
theless, not a few Yorkshire
sportsmen by no means disdained
to follow the hounds owned by
Sir Clifford Constable, though
they were afterwards turned into
harriers, while Buy Cheap Donepezil at Easingwold,
under the mastership of Mr. Batty,
there was also an establishment
for hunting the deer. They, how-
ever, had plenty of fun, and some
of the hard- riding Yorkshiremen
really thought more of it than
they cared to acknowledge.
Cheshire, too, that county of
grass, had its staghounds when
Lord Westminster kept them in
the last century, as is shown by
Stubbs*s picture and other records,
while later on Mr. Shakerley kept
a pack for some time.
One is so accustomed to asso-
ciate the name of Lord Darling-
ton, afterwards in succession the
Marquis and Duke of Cleveland,
with foxhunting of the highest
type that one can hardly bring
oneself to imagine that stag-
hounds were ever kept in the
Raby kennels ; yet so it was,
though not in the time of the first
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marquis. There have been cir-
cumstances in which masters of
hounds, who were once famed for
their keenness for the sport, have
taken a dislike to it in their later
years. This was the case with
the late Mr. Thomas DufEeld,
sometime master of the Old Berks
hounds. Soon after resigning the
country he abandoned the thrust-
ing style of riding which once
characterised him and used to go
about on a cob ; but this was only
the first stage towards taking a
dislike to seeing hounds on his
land. In Lord Darlington's case,
however, the original dislike to
hunting seems to have arisen
from a dislike to his son, and
when he drew near the end of his
life he grubbed up, and otherwise
destroyed, all the best coverts in
the country, so that when the
second duke came into the family
estates he found himself with a
miserable pack of hounds, and
with scarcely a covert to hold a
fox. In this situation he did the
best thing he could under the
circumstances and started a pack
of staghounds, an innovation
which is said to have almost
shocked the orthodox foxhunters of
the district. Necessity, however,
has no law, and before many
weeks had passed the duke's stag-
hounds were very well attended,
and when the coverts were grown
up the stag was forsaken for the
fox ; but the hunt never regained
its former proud position.
In the Eastern Counties hunting
the carted deer has, in one way
and another, had a rather long
life, not unaccompanied with
merriness. Of Mr. Neave's Essex
pack mention has already been
made, and they were sometimes
taken into Norfolk and Suffolk ;
but in the "thirties" Sir Jacob
Astley, who subsequently revived
one of the three Hastings
peerages, determined to have
some sort of hunting ready to