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he left Eton he bought his hrst pack, and, I beheve, kept 

 them in the neiohbourhood of the school during his last 

 term, h'rom that day to within a year of his death, a 

 period of fifty years, he was never without hounds. Part 

 of one season, when Charles Newman broke his leg and 

 could not ride, he hunted his hounds for him three times a 

 week, and his harriers generally the other three days, but 

 he has told me it was terribly hard work, even for a young 

 man of twenty-five. My father was master of the East 

 Essex for twenty-five years, when 1 succeeded him in the 

 field for one season with his hoimds, horses, and servants. 



" In 1869 Mr. \V. H. \\ hite (commonly called Captain 

 White) took the countr)-, on his resignation of the Esse.x 

 and Suffolk countr\', and hunted the hounds seven seasons, 

 when he was succeeded by Colonel Jelf Sharp, also an ex- 

 master of the Essex and .Suffolk hounds, who hunted the 

 country five seasons. In 1881 Mr. Archibald Ruggles- 

 Brise took the country, but after one season had a partner, 

 his brother-in-law, Mr. Jes.ser Coope. The joint master- 

 ship, however, only went on for one season, and in 1883 

 Mr. lesser Coope became sole master, and continued till 

 1886, when he was succeeded by Mr. Heale Colvin, who 

 resigned in 1891, when our present master, Mr. Walter 

 Grimston, took the country. I have hunted in this country 



