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by's " post on the Field, which embraced the report- 

 ing of hounds* doings within the Melton circuit. 

 This meant Monday the Quorn, Tuesday the Cottes- 

 more, Wednesday the Belvoir, Thursday Sir Bache 

 Cunard's, Friday the Quorn again, and Saturday 

 Belvoir and Cottesmore alternately. 



My old friend " H. S. D.," who had taken on 

 " Brooksby's " place in '84-'85, but who had found 

 the distances too great from his home in the Billesdon 

 country, asked me if I minded giving up Tuesday 

 and Thursday to him. This, with the Editor's 

 permission, I was very glad to be able to do, and 

 readers of the Field will remember his signature 

 under the heading of " High Leicestershire." 



The hunting Editor of the Field was then Mr. 

 Walsh, and I have no hesitation in saying that he 

 was the best man for the post that the paper has 

 ever had. This is said in no disparagement of my 

 good friend, the present hunting Editor, who is an 

 excellent sportsman, and probably the best man to 

 be found for the job. 



Mr. Walsh was, however, exceptionally bril- 

 liant, and possessed the knack of knowing exactly 

 what his readers wanted. In my humble opinion 

 the Field owes its success chiefly to him, and 

 also in no small degree to Capt. Pennell Elm- 

 hirst (" Brooksby"). When the latter first began 

 writing his articles, the style of the ordinary hunt- 

 ing correspondent and his methods of describing 

 a run were both feeble and uninteresting. " Brooks- 

 by " began a new era, which raised the form of 

 hunting correspondence on to a higher plane. 

 From the time when he started to write for the 

 Field, that paper rose rapidly in popular favour. 



