36o REMINISCENCES OF 



send away. I hope, Sir, that you will pay for the 

 1 8 couple ; Charles expects his half of the money. 



" Honrd. Sir, i Beg to remain your humble and 

 obeident Servant, 



" B. GODDARD." 



I replied : — 



" 2gth April, 1866. 



" I most decidedly object to pay you for the 

 whole eighteen couple, and I do so on the principle 

 that no huntsman has any right to send away draft 

 hounds in the last stage of distemper when they could 

 not possibly recover. If my man had come two 

 days later, many of them would have been dead, 

 and then you could not have sent them. 



" You say it is a bad job for you having so few 

 to send. It is a much worse job for me having to pay 

 for what I have not got, as there are only two puppies 

 fit to keep. 



" However, I will send you a cheque for ^30, 

 and if you are not satisfied with that arrangement, 

 I will refer it to any huntsman or Master of Hounds 

 you like. Let me hear, and I will at once send you 

 the cheque." 



Lord Doneraile was afterwards Master of the 

 Duhallow Hounds in Ireland, and his death was most 

 melancholy and distressing. He died of hydrophobia 

 from the bite of a tame fox which he used to take in 

 his carriagfe. He and I were in the same tutor's 

 house at Eton. 



