THE EIGHTH DUKE 



now two things to ask Mr. Horlock : one is to 

 put the saddle on the right horse, and blame me, 

 not Clark (if he does not see that his own folly- 

 was the cause of the door being shut in his face) ; 

 and the other is that he will, when giving an 

 account of any transaction between himself and 

 me, tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but 

 the truth. 



" Yours, etc., 



" Beaufort." 



In 1 86 1 the Duke was obliged to winter abroad, 

 and the hounds were placed under the manage- 

 ment of Sir William Codrington, and Colonel 

 Kingscote, his brother-in-law. The Duke himself 

 sailed for Gibraltar with a few hounds, intended 

 as a gift for the Calp6 Hunt, where so many 

 infantry subalterns have been trained in hunting. 

 The then Master of the Calpe Hunt was Colonel 

 Powlett Somerset, a cousin of the Duke's. 



In 1863 the Duke determined to see how his 

 famous pack would hunt the wolf in France. He 

 started from Folkestone on March 28, with twenty- 

 five couple of hounds under the charge of Clark, 

 eighteen horses, two carriages, and a heavy fourgon. 

 The Journal de la Vienne commemorated the 

 arrival of the Duke and his hounds in Poitou in 

 the following interesting paragraph : — 



" Everybody knows that from time immemo- 

 rial there have been no wolves in England, the 



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