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and gown when sittin<r in their chambers, and as under- 

 graduates are depicted Hving- in cap and gown, so have 

 hunt servants been supposed to constantly wear their official 

 dress. 



About 1833, however, the decrepit Holmes, who 

 probably died quietly in his bed instead of being overtaken 

 by ActJEon's fate, retired into private life, and in his place 

 came Jem Morgan, a complete contrast to Mr. Conyers's 

 previous huntsman, and the father of four sons, of whom Ben 

 and Goddard were perhaps the most famous. This happy 

 change came none too soon, for the master contrived to 

 make himself very unpopular, the ill-feeling towards him 

 taking the form of killing foxes in front of hounds, on at 

 least one occasion. Jem Morgan, son of a tenant farmer 

 in Suffolk, was born in the year 1785. As a boy he 

 distinguished himself with the harriers of Mr. Lloyd, of 

 Hintlesham, by charging a gate out of a lane on his 

 pony when nearly the whole field were pounded. The 

 harriers were afterwards changed into foxhounds, and 

 Jem's father was persuaded to let him enter Mr. 

 Lloyd's service as whip. Here he remained for eleven 

 years, sometimes riding his own black horse, Mungo. 

 Later on he whipped in, and acted as kennel hunts- 

 man, to the Tickham hounds, when Giles Morgan, a 



