THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



in ten minutes. Killed one dog, and behaved very 

 well, not going back to kill the other." 



Some time after this, appears a note in the diary 

 that the Duke had to leave his hounds, and " being 

 a steward of Doncaster races, put the hounds in 

 physic, and go to Heath Hall, near Wakefield — Jack 

 Smyth's. Twenty miles ; two teams. My coach 

 and one team of mine. One he hired — a good one. 

 Capital racing." 



Another note shows the Duke felt, that with the 

 various duties and occupations then taking up his 

 time and attention, he needed a man who could 

 hunt hounds occasionally. " Will Stansby joins 

 me as first whipper-in. He was for thirteen sea- 

 sons first whipper-in to Bill Long, and then hunted 

 the Worcestershire, and for one season Lord Harry 

 Thynne's. He has been thirty years with hounds, 

 and I hope to derive great benefit and assistance 

 from him." 



On the 25th September in the same year the 

 Duke writes : " I had tried the last two days hunt- 

 ing later, but found, in spite of the wet and cold, 

 that the hot weather was returning, and that at this 

 time of year it does not pay hunting late " (late at 

 9 a.m. !). 



Two more foxes were lost by halloaing, a practice 

 from which the Duke suffered terribly. The diary 

 bristles with such sentences as : " Mr. S (con- 

 found him) halloaed us on to a fresh one." It 

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