Records of the Chase And Memoirs of Celebrated Sportsmen Illustrating Some of
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In 1888 Mr. Thomas Shaw Hellier succeeded Mr. Vyner, and however great the latter gentleman's zeal 118 RECORDS OF THE CHASE and ability were manifest, his successor entered into the spirit of the chase con amore. Mr. Hellier had kept a pack of harriers at his seat in Staffordshire, and for several years had made Leamington his winter residence for the purpose of hunting. He was, there- fore, no novice in the management of hounds or acquaintance with the country; and having a purse sufficiently ...weighty to withstand any disappointments which might arise from inadequate or unpaid subscrip- tions, entered upon his duties with most flattering prospects of success ; nor were they disappointed. The large fields attendant upon these hounds whenever they met at any of the favourite fixtures in the Dunchurch country afforded ample proofs of the estimation in which they were held. Although a heavy weight, Mr. Hellier hunted his own hounds, and he was superlatively well mounted. Nothing puts the perseverance of hounds and the patience of huntsmen to a stronger test than short-running, dodging foxes which appear to have no point to make for; in hunting them Mr.
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