THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



Bell in which he roundly abuses my huntsman 

 Clark. I regret to be obliged to say that Mr. 

 Horlock, or ' Scrutator,' as he calls himself, has not 

 told the truth. The real facts I will state, and 

 leave you and your readers to judge who ought to 

 complain of want of courtesy, he or I. Mr. Hor- 

 lock wrote to say he was engaged to describe the 

 kennels of England, and that so well did he know 

 my hounds if he only had a few particular de- 

 scriptions of individual hounds, he could perfectly 

 write a description of them. I thought this strange, 

 but both I and the huntsman wrote to him on the 

 subject, giving (without any reference or com- 

 parison with each other) our own version of their 

 general and particular appearance and character. 

 This elicited a reply from Mr. Horlock that the 

 hounds must be improved since he had seen them, 

 and that as he believed Tuesday was a non-hunting 

 day, he would be at the kennels early that morning. 

 In answer he was told ' Tuesday was a hunting 

 day, but the hounds met about three and a half 

 miles off, and Clark shall stay with you to the 

 last minute he can, and sending on the hounds shall 

 gallop after them on a hack.' 



"He was also told that I was going away for 

 a few days, but that a quiet and pleasant horse was 

 ordered and at his disposal, if he chose to see the 

 hounds in the field. On the Sunday or Monday 

 before the appointed Tuesday, came a letter from 

 Mr. Horlock to say he had lumbago, and could 



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