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received a tip, whilst his salary would be almost swallowed 

 up in horse corn and other fodder. This is eloquent proof 

 that the man who carried the horn could have no ulterior 

 motive beyond a love of sport. The finances of the hunt 

 improved as years went on, and, eventually, the salary was 

 more than doubled, though even then there were many 

 expenses which no huntsman except one connected with the 

 smallest dale pack is called upon to meet. In the 

 days of the greatest affluence of the hunt club, to which 

 reference has already been made, the following expenditure 

 sheet tells of enhanced circumstances : — 



Payments. £ s. d. 



Jack Parker, one year's salary as huntsman 170 

 Tom Horsman, one year's salary as whip 40 



Taxes on servants 1 10 



Meal, etc., for hounds 8 10 



Expenses at the kennels 4 110 



Printing and advertising 16 6 



Clothing for hunt servants 12 12 6 



Gratuities for gamekeepers 7 



Poultry damage 6 10 



251 10 

 Balance carried to next account 15 6 8 



Total 266 7 6 



Subscriptions 266 7 6 



One procures some idea as to the modus operandi adopted 

 at this epoch from the "*Baily " article already quoted, 

 which tells of the state of affairs in 1872. This is twenty 

 years after Jack became huntsman, but during those twenty 

 years there had been little change in the constitution of the 

 country or the conditions of Hunting it. The article runs : — 



Another pack is the Sinnington, which claims to be, and I believe 

 with reason, the oldest in England. Here we still have a good example 

 of the way in which our forefathers conducted sport where there is 

 no local magnate to bear the brunt of the expense in providing it for 

 them, as the hounds are trencher-fed, or, in other words, instead of a 

 subscription towards expenses each yeoman and farmer keeps a hound 

 or two, as the case may be. The huntsman lives at Kirbymoorside, 



