FAMOUS SERVANTS OF THE HUNT 



He was, too, an excellent kennel huntsman, and 

 loved a day on the flags to show his favourites to 

 an appreciative visitor. No one did the honours 

 of the kennel with more of an air than he, espe- 

 cially when sons or daughters of his favourite 

 Fleecer were showing themselves to his satisfac- 

 tion. 



Clark remained ten years with the Duke, hunt- 

 ing hounds often six days a week, which is hard 

 work for any man. In his day the Duke or Lord 

 Worcester usually drove a team to the fixture, and 

 Tom Clark was generally one of the passengers. 

 He was always neat and smartly turned out, and the 

 Duke mounted him well, being of opinion that a 

 servant, be he huntsman or whipper-in, had better 

 be at home than badly mounted in the field. This 

 opinion, though generally held, is by no means 

 always acted on by masters of hounds. 



In 1868 Clark left and took an inn at Chipping 

 Sodbury. He now passes out of this story. 



Time would fail me to tell of all the Badminton 

 servants, many of whom reached to excellence in 

 their profession : of Will Todd, whose holloa was 

 famous ; of steady, careful Will Stainsby ; of Jack 

 West, afterwards huntsman of the Cottesmore ; of 

 Nimrod Long, who made a name for himself with 

 the Brocklesby. 



It was after Tom Clark left that Lord Worcester 

 took the horn, and Charles Hamblin came to him 

 as kennel huntsman. Hamblin was trained under 



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