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together as the most enthusiastic of masters, all over 

 twenty stone, and real good men. Mr. Warde used 

 to say it did not matter, the big men broke their 

 backs, and the light men their hearts. He hunted in 

 all sorts of countries during fifty-six years of Master- 

 ship, the Craven, the Bicester, the Pytchley, the New 

 Forest, the Oxfordshire, the Berkshire, and a country 

 in Kent all being under his command at one time or 

 another. He lived to a great age, being over eighty 

 when he died in London. Mr. Henry Villebois be- 

 longed to a great sporting family, as his father and 

 two uncles all kept hounds, and were great authorities 

 on the noble pastime. For several years Mr. Henry 

 Villebois had the Vale of White Horse, where he 

 built up a very good pack, and as he studied hound 

 pedigrees immensely, he knew a great deal more 

 about it than most people. He was, during the 

 latter part of his life, the Master of the West 

 Norfolk, v/here he resided on his own property. For 

 some ten years before his death he gave up hound- 

 keeping, and died at the ripe old age of seventy-nine, 

 respected by all who knew him. 



" Two of the most noted sportsmen, father and son, 

 that lived in the past century were Mr. John Musters 

 (known to his friends as 'Jack Musters') and his 

 son, Mr. John Cha worth Musters. If I mistake not, 

 the former is taken as the typical heavy-weight in 

 the Hunting volume of the Badminton Library. I 

 have not the number by me, but I think it is so. At 

 any rate, he was as good as he could be, walking 



