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The Chase 



hedge, then they go to another place and look, and 

 then they go over, — is that better for them ? " 



J. M, K. Elliott. 



The " Iron Duke " as Fox-hunter <^ 



IT is well known that the Duke of Wellington, 

 in choosing his aides-de-camp^ always preferred 

 fox-hunters, because he said they knew how to ride 

 straight to a given point, generally had good horses, 

 and were equally willing to charge a big place or an 

 enemy. His Grace was no less liberal in supporting 

 fox-hunting. On one occasion, when the subscrip- 

 tion to a good pack fell ofF and some lukewarmness 

 showed itself among the contributors, being asked 

 to give his assistance, he said laconically, " Get 

 what you can, and put my name down for the 

 difference." That difference was ;^6oo a year I 

 Yet, notwithstanding the great Duke was a fox- 

 hunter, no man presumed to doubt his master mind, 

 either as a General or as a Statesman. 



Sir y. E. Eardley-Wilmot. 



The Brocklesby .^p^ <:> xi> 



WHAT other Hunt could put from sixty to 

 seventy scarlet-coated tenant farmers in the 

 field ? The present Lord Yarborough's great- 

 grandfather was once asked where he got his tenants 

 from. " Get them ! " replied his lordship, " get 

 them ? I don't get them ; I breed them.'* And 

 so it was ; the same farms, the same love of high 

 farming, and of sport of all kinds, descending from 

 father to son and from generation to generation. 

 But things have altered since then, and the 

 iniquitous burdens placed on the land, and the 



