The Late Mr. John Salter of Alphington House: [From Bell’s Life, March 27.]: the Vale of Devon has lost one of those mainstays to sport whose death it gives us pain to record, as he was the staunchest of the staunch in all hunting matters …was withal a genial, cheery companion and had an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes, was a most unselfish sportsman, for he has often and often trudged out hinging through a long day with Mr. Guppy’s or Mr. Yelverton’s Harriers in order to meet a friend of two, and Mr. J. Pynsent Mathew, the popular Master of the Talaton pack, as well as all neighbours who used to meet him in the field, will miss him …
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