28o THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



"getting through a country, not over it." He didn't 

 care much about jumping, but was invariably on the 

 spot to turn hounds when required, and seemed, as it 

 were, to drop down from the clouds. On Mr. White 

 giving up in 1880, Dick Yeo went to hunt hounds 

 for Admiral Parker in Devonshire. He is now hunts- 

 man to one of the Shropshire packs. 



In 1880 Captain Carnegy, of Lour, in Forfarshire, who 

 had previously hunted that country for nine seasons, 

 became the new master, bringing with him some of his best 

 hounds, and his first whipper-in and kennel huntsman, 

 George Rae. He held the reins till the end of the season 

 1890-91, reigning longer than any previous master of the 

 "Essex Union." He carried the horn himself, and being a 

 consummate judge of horse and hound, and in the writer's 

 humble opinion, the finest horseman for his weight he has 

 ever seen, everything was most admirably done. He cannot 

 have found his first season a bed of roses, inasmuch as both 

 he and his staff were quite new to the country, nevertheless 

 he had a very fair season and one notable run, which we 

 mention later on. We think it was his third season which 

 was an exceptionally good one, as we had a gallop every 

 day hounds were out. He knew "every rope in the ship," 

 and kept his field in good order, never throwing his tongue 



