THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



day for ^400. The rider was immortalised in 



song : — 



" See Jack Bunce the raspers taking, 

 Sets the funker's nerves a shaking." 



Then there was the Rev. John Waller, said by 

 his contemporaries to be one of the hardest old 

 men England ever produced, a most resolute horse- 

 man and a good judge of hunting. *' He was 

 seldom absent," says Nimrod, " at the finish of a 

 good run." Captain Evans, of Dean, commonly 

 known as the " flying Captain," was a regular 

 " Duke's man," and lived well into the eighth 

 Duke's time. He went into Leicestershire, like 

 Mr. Sawyer, for a season, and made something of 

 a figure with his grey horse, but he soon returned 

 to his allegiance to the Buff and Blue. He had a 

 famous hunter, Grimaldi, on which he used to show 

 the way in Oxfordshire. This horse was sold to 

 the Squire for the famous match over the Harrow 

 country, against Mr. Elmore's Moonraker. About 

 1 83 1 Captain Evans retired from hunting and went 

 to live in Hampshire. He there had a famous 

 pack of dwarf beagles which were turned to him 

 by a retriever named Sam. Prince Albert is said 

 to have been delighted with the working of these 

 little hounds. 



At all times in the history of the hunt, the 

 Duke's hounds have been supported by the land- 

 owners of the neighbourhood. Such names as 

 those of Codrington, Estcourt, Kingscote, Miles, 



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