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Treadwell is a good name in the hunting world. 

 There are two brothers who have graduated from 

 Huntsmen-Whipper-in-ships to be regular Huntsmen ; 

 one under Mr. Codrington and Mr. Horlock, the 

 other under Mr. Smith of the Craven. Mr. Codring- 

 ton's Treadwell now hunts Mr. Farquharson's hounds, 

 and has a son a Whipper-in with the Hambledon ; 

 Charles, Mr. Smith's one, is now Huntsman with 

 Lord Harewood. Old Tom Rose got young Tom 

 Rose; and, if we mistake not, Tom Wingfield, Mr. 

 Drake's Huntsman, in Oxfordshire, is son of Tom 

 Wingfield, who whipped-in to Raven and Goodall in 

 Leicestershire in Lord Sefton's time. Mr. Drake's 

 Huntsman, Wingfield, has, or had, a Whipper-in of 

 the name of Goodall, very likely a son of Goodall the 

 Huntsman. Tom Leedham, Mr. Meynell Ingram's 

 Huntsman, is or was whipped-in to by his two sons. 

 There is one name, " Jones," that is about extinct in 

 the hunting field. Mr. Meynell had a famous cork- 

 legged Whipper-in of that name, who was also a bit 

 of an author, and published some journals of their 

 doings. He was a great rider and a great drinker 

 also. They say he used sometimes to get so drunk 

 that he could not recollect, when he awoke in the 

 morning, where he had left his leg over-night. There 

 was also a Robert Jones, who hunted a joint pack, 

 kept by the late Colonel Wardle and the late Sir 

 Harry Goodricke's father, in Flintshire. The cele- 

 brated Tom Crane, afterwards Huntsman to the Fife 

 hounds, came, we believe, from that part of the king- 

 dom, and has left no hunting descendants that we 

 know of. Crane, from all accounts, was a most 

 extraordinary man. It was said of him that one of 

 his eyes was worth two of most other men's, and that 

 his ear was as true as his eye was quick. Crane 

 hunted the Duke of Wellington's hounds during the 

 Peninsular war, and one day in the ardour followed 

 his hounds almost into the enemy's camp. 

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