COMMANDER KEMBLE. 2S3 



hiiiit and one of its best supporters in every way for more 

 years that we can remember) succeeded Captain Carnegy, 

 and no more popular man could have been found, the 

 name of Kemble being quite a household word. At the 

 expiration of his third season, George Rae, whom Cap- 

 tain Kemble had kept on as huntsman, had two very bad 

 falls, rendering him unable to carry the horn any longer. 

 This, coupled with the long distance of Captain Kemble's 

 residence from the kennels, induced the latter to resign, 

 which he did, to the universal regret of all members of 

 the hunt, and with the satisfaction to himself of having 

 made no end of friends and not a single enemy. There 

 was not a single hunting or non-hunting farmer with 

 whom he was not most popular ; consequently, he handed 

 over to his successor a country full of foxes and the know- 

 ledge that all the occupiers of land were well disposed 

 towards the chase. His huntsman, Georo-e Rae, who 

 had served for fourteen seasons in Essex under Captain 

 Carnegy and Captain Kemble, was presented with a very 

 substantial testimonial in hard cash, as a recognition by 

 the members of the hunt of his services in the field. 

 Thus we come down to the advent of Mr. Ashton as 

 successor to Captain Kemble. The former had pre- 

 viously b(;en Master of the Cambridgeshire and the 



