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and Mr. W. E. Paget became joint masters. Their 

 huntsman, Wilson, is, I beheve, a great success ; 

 but have not yet seen him hunt hounds. 



Major Bouch has the Belvoir now in his own 

 hands, and I understand is hunting hounds himself. 



How much hunting I may be able to do in the 

 future — writing in autumn 1919 — I am unable to 

 say, as, after having acted as hunting correspondent 

 to the Field for nearly thirty years, they now say 

 that they can pay me less than a third of what I 

 formerly received. It therefore appears likely that 

 I shall have to follow hounds on foot, as I shall not 

 be able to keep a horse with hay and corn at its 

 present price. 



In addition to this I have taken unto myself a 

 wife, and the necessary expenses attached thereto. 



I will conclude this volume with an apology for 

 giving undue prominence to my own doings, and 

 to the runs I myself enjoyed ; but I was writing 

 memories of things that affected me personally, 

 and not the second-hand stories of others. 



Like Whyte-Melville, the best of my fun I owe 

 it to horse and to hound. 



