MR. CONYERS S FIRST I'ERIOH Ol'' MASTERSHII'. 5 I 



primed for a frolic. " The Druid " tells how, after indulo-in£r 

 rather freely in claret-cup at luncheon, they all followed 

 Conyers into a deep morass, which is called " Conyers's 

 Bog " to this day. 



In his first attempt to hunt the Essex County the 

 young master had the assistance of the famous huntsman 

 Ben Jennings. In 1S07, Jennings left Mr. Conyers's ser- 

 vice tor that of an e\"en yoimger master, Mr. Farquharson 

 of Dorsetshire, whose pack he hunted for thirty seasons, in 

 a manner that caused a New Forest sportsman to say that 

 if it had pleased Providence to make a fo.x of him originally, 

 he would have picked any other man in England to be 

 hunted by. 



We have not found any record of Mr. Conyers's sport 

 durincT his first season, but his second was a ofood one, if 

 his February rim fr(5m a small spring near Roydon 

 Town to beyond Knightlands is a fair sample of the sport 

 shown. The expense of keeping up the hounds, how- 

 ever, soon emptied the pockets of the young guardsman. 

 His own statement was that he "sold his commission to 

 buy dog biscuit," but the money thus raised only lasted 

 till the end of his third season, when he resigned the 

 country, and sold the hounds. 



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