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A VINTAGE DOG BOOKS CLASSIC REPRINT. Originally published in 1878 while the Rev. Russell was still alive, the book was then republished in 1883 with an extra chapter dealing with Russell's death and funeral. Both editions are now extremely scarce and expensive. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS have republished the 1883 edition, using the original text and illustrations as part of their CLASSIC BREED BOOKS series. The Rev. John Russell of Tordown in Devon is probably best known for his establishment of one of the worlds favourite dog breeds: The Jack Russell Terrier. This book is devoted to Russell's life as one of the great foxhunting characters in English history, and his passionate involvement with horses, hounds and terriers in his beloved Devon countryside. Although not a typical dog book this title will prove of great interest to anyone owning a Jack Russell Terrier, with its lively anecdotes of the history and origins of this game little dog. The author was a good friend of the Rev. Russell and before this book of memoirs was published he consulted his subject on the veracity of every line of its contents. John Russell's life and his love of sport is detailed from his early days at Tiverton School where he kept his first pack of hounds. For the next 75 years his life revolved around the Church and his love of hunting the fox, stag and hare. Upon his death in 1883 Russell left a legacy to the world not only of a hunting legend, but also the Jack Russell breed of terrier now loved by so many. This is a fascinating four hundred page read for any Jack Russell Terrier enthusiast or historian of the breed, and will also stand as an important record of the early days of hunting in the South West. Many of the earliest dog books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. VINTAGE DOG BOOKS are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Keywords: Jack Russell Terrier Dog Breeds Devon Countryside John Russell Rev John Passionate Involvement Books Series Breed Books Life As One English History Hounds Anecdotes Memoir Terriers Still Alive

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	16 octobre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528769921
Langue	English

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THE OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE
OF THE
REV. JOHN RUSSELL.
When autumn is flaunting his banner of pride
For glory that summer has fled,
Arrayed in the robes of his royalty, dyed
In tawny and orange and red;
When the oak is yet rife with the vigour of life,
Though his acorns are dropping below,
Through bramble and brake shall the echoes awake,
To the ring of a clear Tally-Ho!
W HYTE -M ELVILLE .
THE REV. JOHN RUSSELL
THE OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE
OF THE
REV. JOHN RUSSELL,
A MEMOIR .
BY
THE AUTHOR OF DARTMOOR DAYS, ETC.
New Edition.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY SON, NEW BURLINGTON ST.
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1883.
( All rights reserved .)
THE
S ECOND E DITION OF THIS M EMOIR
Is Dedicated
BY THE AUTHOR
TO
JOHN ANSTRUTHER THOMSON, E SQ .,
A FRIEND LONG VALUED
AND A MAN AFTER RUSSELL S OWN HEART.
November 6 th , 1883.
INTRODUCTION.

T HE Reader will be glad to know, as the Author is to state, that before a line of the first edition of this Memoir was published, the proof-sheets of every chapter were duly submitted to Mr. Russell himself, in order that any statement, affecting directly or indirectly the authenticity of his personal history, might be corrected, refuted, or substantiated by his own hand.
That advantage the present edition lacks only in the final chapter; which is now added to wind up the history of his last years, and at the same time to record-as the Author does with unspeakable regret-the closing scene of his prolonged and active life.
CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
John Russell s Education under his Father-Is sent to Plympton School-His First Fight with J. C. Bulteel-Is removed to Tiverton School-Keeps Hounds there, and gets into Trouble with Dr. Richards, the Head Master-Is admitted into Exeter College, Oxford, in 1814
CHAPTER II.
Buys his First Horse at Tiverton Fair, and sees his First Stag killed with Lord Fortescue s Hounds-Learns to spar at Oxford, and sets-to with Denne and others-Wrestling Matches in Devon and Cornwall his great delight
CHAPTER III.
A Day with the Heythrop and Sir Thomas Mostyn s Packs-Russell s Terriers-Anecdotes of Tip and Nelson-The Process of manufacturing so-called Fox-Terriers for the Market
CHAPTER IV.
Is Ordained and Licensed to his First Curacy-Keeps Otter-Hounds at South Molton, and hunts with Mr. Froude-Anecdotes of that Gentleman and Dr. Phillpotts, the late Bishop of Exeter
CHAPTER V.
The Teignbridge Cricket Club and the Party at Stover-Mr. George Templer and the Let- em-alones -The Bold Dragoon -The Rev. Henry Taylor and his Horse Nunky
CHAPTER VI.
He falls in Love-Rides by Night to Bath-His Grotesque Mount in Milsom Street-Is Married, and removes to Iddesleigh-Keeps Foxhounds, and forms an Alliance with Mr. C. A. Harris-Difficulties with Fox-killers
CHAPTER VII.
The Artificial Fox-earth-Accession of Country-The Bodmin Meetings-Long Distances to Cover-Sir Tatton Sykes-The Ivy-Bridge Hunt Week-Rides Home
CHAPTER VIII.
Has no Regular Whip-His Three Horses-Termination of the Alliance and Contraction of his Country-Mr. J. Morth Woolcombe-The Pencarrow Run-Mrs. Smith, of Porlock-The Four Vixen Cubs
CHAPTER IX.
Removes to Swymbridge-His Kindness to the Gipsies-St. Hubert s Hall-The Vine Draft-The Chumleigh Club-The Bishop of Exeter and the Charges against Russell-Bishop revokes the Curate s License-Mr. Trelawny on the Chumleigh Meetings
CHAPTER X.
His Power in distinguishing Hounds after once hearing their Names-Parts with his Pack-Starts again-Kennel Management-Firing, etc.-Four Days Work-Mr. Houlditch as Whip-Kindness to a Curate-A Scene between them at Lanacre Bridge on the Moor
CHAPTER XI.
The South Molton Club-Stopping out the Foxes- Beatrice and Barbara -Russell and Radcliffe s Stories-The Little Specklety Hen -Russell s Ducking in the Barle-Mallard and Cat snapped up by Foxes in Chase
CHAPTER XII.
The South Molton Meetings-Limpetty, Mr. Trelawny s Huntsman, rides over a Flood-Hatch on Jack Sheppard -Russell ceases to be a Master of Hounds-His Long Devotion to the Antient Sport of Kings -A Brief Sketch of the Staghounds-A Barrister and his Gallant Grey brought to Grief in an Exmoor Bog-Anecdote of Hind and Calf
CHAPTER XIII.
Russell and his Friend, the Rev. A. F. Luttrell, of Quantockshead-Danger of Handling a Stag at Bay-Man and Hound Injured, and both Saved by Russell-Ladies to the Front over Exmoor-Mrs. Cholmondeley s Perilous Fall
CHAPTER XIV.
Visits Marham Hall and Sandringham-Dances the Old Year out and the New Year in with the Princess of Wales-Manly Traits in the Young Princes-Sorrow at Home-His Clerical Life-Tiverton Old Boys Meetings
CHAPTER XV.
Russell Removes to Black Torrington-A Disastrous Fire in his New Stables-Hunts with the Quorn, the Cottesmore, the Belvoir, and the Beaufort Hounds-Visits Col. J. Anstruther Thomson, and goes with him and Mr. J. Whyte-Melville to Ascot-Hunts with the Staghounds, and again Visits Sandringham-His Last Illness-Death and Funeral
MEMOIR OF
THE REV. JOHN RUSSELL.

CHAPTER I.
John Russell s Education under his Father-Is sent to Plympton School-His First Fight with J. C. Bulteel-Is removed to Tiverton School-Keeps Hounds there, and gets into trouble with Dr. Richards, the Head Master-Is admitted into Exeter College, Oxford, in 1814.
Boys, to the hunting field! though tis November,
The wind s in the south; but a word ere we start-
Though keenly excited, I bid you remember
That hunting s a science, and riding an art.
E GERTON -W ARBURTON .
T HE subject of the present memoir, the Rev. John Russell, was born on the 21st of December, 1795. His father was the well-known rector of Iddesleigh, in the north of Devon, but resided, when John was born, and for a short time afterwards, at Dartmouth, where he took pupils, and at the same time kept hounds. It is recorded of him that not only was he careful to instruct the former in the rudiments of Greek and Latin, but in those of the noble science ; the full enjoyment of the one being made subservient to the due acquirement of the other.
Work and play was the good man s motto; and to carry out this principle he adopted the novel plan of keeping a pony-hunter expressly for the benefit of the boys; and he who managed to gain the highest marks for his work during the week was rewarded with sole possession of the pony on the following hunting-day.
As might be expected, no stimulant could have been more effective: the boys worked like Trojans at their school tasks.
During this eventful era, however, the child Jack was in petticoats; and before he became old enough to compete for a mount, his father removed to Southhill Rectory, near Callington. But, inheriting as he did a double portion of that sire s hunting blood, had the chance been given him, it may well be imagined how he would have stepped first and foremost into the academic ring, and how he would have striven, early and late, to secure so glorious a reward. His Propria qu maribus, we may be sure, would have been perfect; his knowledge of the Concords and Syntax equally faultless; nor, the victory gained, would he have failed to acknowledge that the day s sport, thus earned, had been doubly sweetened by the very labour he had taken to obtain it.
A Cornish gentleman, whose father had been educated by the elder Russell, writes thus to the author of these memoirs: My father has long been dead: he sleeps in the Consul s garden at Tangier; but I can well remember the delight with which he was wont to talk of his school days at Dartmouth, and the admiration he felt for his dear old master. Of him he would say: He was one of the best classics, one of the best preachers and readers, and by far the boldest hunter in the county of Devon. Not unfrequently, too, my father would add, have I seen the fine old fellow s top-boots peeping out from under his cassock.
His son became a fair classical scholar, nothing more; but, otherwise, to no one in the West of England would this description apply with more fidelity than to John Russell; whose fine sonorous voice, distinct enunciation, and earnest exhortations have long established his repute, both in desk and pulpit, as an expounder of truth second to none. A story is told that, on the occasion of his preaching a sermon, either at the re-opening of a church newly restored, or on behalf of the North Devon Hospital (to which, in this way, he has ever been a ready and bountiful contributor), the late Bishop of Exeter, Henry Phillpotts, travelled a long distance on purpose to hear him. The stout-hearted prelate, himself a master of eloquence, was so taken with the matter of the discourse and the style of its delivery, that he pointedly expressed his commendation of both to those assembled around him at the luncheon-table.
Yes, my lord, said a lady sitting next to him, who happened to be nearly connected with the preacher, and very well known as a prominent rider in the hunting-field, yes, Mr. Russell is very good in the wood; but I should like your lordship to see him in the pigskin.
But, having anticipated the period of his middle-life by this anecdote, it will be necessary now to revert to the boy s school days, and follow him through the bright but not unclouded portion of that somewhat eventful time.
An old-established grammar school was that of Plympton, the go-cart of Sir Joshua Reynolds, to which he was first sent. There, it would appear, the head master maintained the block-system in full force; not, however, for the purpose of checking, but rather of exped