another, known by the name of " The Squirrel,” were ready to act as interpreters, and attend sportsmen to the North-west Company's possessions; and that the landlord's wife from the United States would superintend all household arrangements.” Such was the outline of a prospectus which we caused to be placarded over Montreal and neighbourhood, copies of which we directed might be sent to other towns in the provinces.

THE SPORTSMAN’S SIESTA.

ENGRAVED BY J. H. ENGLEHEART, FROM A PAINTING BY A. COOPER, R.A.

“I ain't well, Doctor: I can't get that sweet sleep' o' nights, Othello's bosom friend was talking about.”

“ Hum-Have you tried poppy or mandragora ?”

“No; but I have almost everything else-going the rounds night after night, never going to bed till, three or four in the morning staying out the Corsican Brothers in nine acts-reading the Sporting Magazine--sitting under an extempore parson-dashed if I can sleep.”

“Hum--the Sporting Magazine-well, that ought to do it. Are you a sportsman?”

Of course he is ; at any rate, a bit of a one- "A shot' Yes, of course, again ; a pretty fair one. “Then try that, says the M.D. "Country air and country exercise, all that you have been reading about only, and you will be off as sound as a top in less than a week.” ..

And so it is. The worthy gentleman, who was wide awake to Grisi and Caradori at midnight or thereabouts, is probably nodding now to Cousin Henny's “ Banks and Braes” at a quarter to ten. How changed in a day or two his complaining note! “Dashed 'if he can keep awake !” now. And, as a great favour, they let him off to bed at ten o'clock“ precisely,” despite the forty winks he was caught napping over, when they brought him his lunch in the Copse-lane.

The worthy alderman who confessed that he did like hunting, for it made him so hungry, might honestly have gone a little further in his eulogy on field sport : it is meat, drink, and sleep to a man. Siesta, perhaps, after all, is scarcely the word for a sportsman's mid-day rest. It is far more worthily come by than the dozy dreamings of the used-up gentleman, who courts the attentions of the drowzy god because he has either nothing else to do, or not the heart to do it with. Mere change of air is often enough to send some of us off, but couple this with an eight hours' beat, and even Miss Henrietta will forgive the terrible want of manners and taste which the visitor exhibits, in fairly “forgetting” himself and herself by a nap before company.

Old Beppo, there, can hardly bear the slight so equitably. watch him on the hearth-rug after dinner, if so far favoure mark how in his dreamings, too, he will stand to that old pheasant he found so cleverly, and you brought down so somely. “We were both wide awake enough then, Miss Henr

THE CHASE.

BY RABY.

The Dulverton country-Devon and Somerset stag-hounds-Captain T Dulverton-The late Mr. Collier-Mr. F. Bellews' harriers-Tiverton hor Mr. T. Carew-Old Beale.

The little town of Dulverton, the Melton of the west, has month been the scene of much gaiety and sport. The stag-hui season having commenced on or about the 20th of August, a requis was forwarded to Captain West (late Master of the Bath, and pri Master of the Cheltenham stag-hounds), backed with a subscrip to bring his pack into the Dulverton country, and hunt the wild deer. The gallant Captain, ever ready for showing sport, at acceded to the request sent him, and commenced operations on Lynmouth part of the country, having very good sport over fine wild country, and either killing or taking his deeron almost e occasion. After the Dulverton races-which, on the whole, 1 good, and ended with a steeple-chase over four miles of countr. little mare, called Minerva, winning—the stag-hounds met at Dul ton, on the morning after the Hunt Ball, and at once proceede Haddon, the pack being left at Hartford. The “ tufters” d Haddon, Upton Wood, and Deer Park, without finding the trac old stags, which were known to be in or about the covert. At Captain West ordered the pack to be thrown into Haddon, and t quickly got on the line of a deer, which ran by Bury, up the hil Baron's Down, then down to the river Exe, and over into Excle Wood; here the hounds forced the deer down to the water age and soon brought him to bay, and would quickly have killed h had not a tenant of Mr. Lucas's rushed into the water and saved deer, which proved to be a young male deer, and was therefore say to be turned out on the moor again, after the hounds had left ! country. It was stated that a fine warrantable stag had been view away from Haddon, by Wynne Corner, during the operation of tu ing; but no one gave Captain West notice of the fact : this stag we in the direction of Skilgate.

I think there is every reason to believe that Captain West will hı the wild deer as long as he is supported by the gentry and others

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the country, as he is evidently fond of the sport, and I doubt if any better arrangement can be made until some one comes forward and takes the Devon and Somerset country as it was held in olden time. I have reason to believe that an interesting account of the good old days of stag-hunting, in this its own peculiar district, will shortly appear, from the pen of one of the oldest stag-hunters in the county, than whom no one is better informed on this subject. Captain West has two very staunch supporters at present in Mr. Fenwick, who has lately taken Pixton Park, near Dulverton (formerly occupied by Colonel Hood), who holds the whole of the Haddon coverts, and is very anxious for the preservation of the deer, the other in Mr. Locke, of Coombe, who came forward this year with a very handsome subscription, and is equally interested in the welfare of the pack. Captain West will hunt the Dulverton side of the country till the middle of October, when he will take up his quarters at Cheltenham, and begin his campaign there; and I think the Cheltenham men will find out that if they wish to keep in sight of the pack or master, that their horses must be in racing condition, or they will be “no where" if the hounds go the same pace over the stone-wall country as they do over the moors of North Devon.

Few places are to be met with from which so much hunting may be had with different packs of hounds as Dulverton, situated exactly twelve miles from the Tiverton station, on the Great Western line. No less than three packs of fox-hounds and five packs of harriers are within reach; and, until lately, a most celebrated pack of otter hounds, the property of the late Mr. Collier, could occasionally be reached. Mr. Collier's death was as sudden as it was sad : it is said that he was struck by lightning at his residence, near Culmstock.

That well-known pack of harriers of the late Mr. Froude, are now the property of his nephew, Mr. Froude Bellew; and for neatness, pace, and courage, are not to be equalled. They are chiefly all greypied; and, if I might judge from their appearance, I should say they are as capable of hunting and killing a fox as a hare, though Mr. Bellew very property confines them to their legitimate quarry, and no one need wish for a better wild moorland country than he hunts.

The kennels are at Anstey. The late Mr. Froude was master of harriers for nearly fifty years.

The Tiverton fox-hounds are still presided over by that excellent sportsman Mr. T. Carew, of Collipriest. These hounds have been established as a pack for sixty years ; they were established by the late Hon. Newton Fellows, afterwards Lord Portsmouth ; after that they became the property of Sir Walter Carew, and were kept at Haccombe, and for the last twelve years they have been kept at Collipriest, and have hunted the Tiverton country. They are a very fine pack of hounds, with plenty of bone and muscle, both of which they must require in the difficult country they hunt. The entry this year is good, and everything appears to promise well for sport. I saw, in the Collipriest kennels, a hound well known in the Vale of White Horse country-Warrener, by Lord Gifford's Warrener, out of Mr. Horlock's Precious. I believe a better hound never went into a covert; and no doubt Mr. Carew will breed largely from him, as he cannot obtain much better blood. The members of the Tiverton