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Win. Stonehouse. 



Robert Jackson. 



Jack Todd — one season. 



Wm. Peacock. 



Harry Ward — three years. 



Joe Shaw — about ten years. 



Dick Shaw (present huntsman) — seven years. 

 I must leave to the imagination the doings of the hunt 

 and the sport enjoyed during the periods, which cannot have 

 been very long ones, of Stonehouse, Jackson and Peacock. 

 Of them, I can gather nothing. It may well be imagined that 

 the changing of huntsmanship of a pack of this character, 

 whilst causing much local discussion, was no very serious 

 or momentous chapter in the history of the hunt. No such 

 questions as the influence of the new head of affairs, his 

 financial capacity to hunt a pack, new kennels, etc., would 

 crop up. The new huntsman would possibly borrow the 

 horn of his predecessor, and on his own pony set off with the 

 hounds which he had no doubt helped to hunt many a time 

 before. 



Old Jack Todd was an interesting character whom 

 it is my lasting regret I had not the opportunity of inter- 

 viewing. I did see him once, and only once, riding a donkey 

 to a fixture of hounds when eighty-seven years of age. He 

 waited at the top of a hill near Farndale to meet the dale 

 pack, and left very shortly after, so that I had little or no 

 opportunity of talking with him. The old man had had 

 experience as a huntsman of harriers, as the following 

 obituary notice, which appeared in the " Malton Messenger " 

 for August 8th, 1903, tells us :— 



" Death of an Old Huntsman. — Jack Todd, the faithful hunts- 

 man to the late Squire Shepherd, whose noted Lastingham pack of 

 harriers used to be the pride of the country side, has at length passed 

 away at an advanced old age. The deceased for many years lived at 

 Lastingham, adjoining the kennels, and when the late squire died, 

 * Jack,' with that redoubtable pluck which signally displayed itself, 

 not only in himself, but in his ' old pal ' and co-worker in the hunting- 

 field — the famous Jack Parker, of Sinnington Hunt celebrity — kept 

 the pack of harriers going (as Parker did the Sinnington) with very 

 little ' ready ' to help him from the outside world. Jack Todd was of a 

 famous hunting stock of Farndale ' bred-uns'. Reared in the 



