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runs he had are preserved to us. As I have mixed 

 amongst Sinnington sportsmen I have heard of great 

 gallops of two or three hours from such and such a covert or 

 moor, but where they finished, or just when they took place 

 it seems to be impossible to learn, so I have thought it 

 advisable only to give the few authenticated runs which I 

 have been able to gather, and these will come in their proper 



ANOTHER SKETCH OF JACK PARKER. 



order in this history, the sequence of which I am for the 

 nonce disregarding to deal with the life of this famous 

 sportsman, whose connection with the hunt forms so import- 

 ant and interesting a chapter. 



At the age of 68, in the year 1890, he resigned the hunts- 

 manship of the pack, and with the Earl of Feversham at the 

 head, a committee set to work to collect a sum of money 

 which would keep the old man to the end of his days. Be- 

 tween £600 and £700 was subscribed, with which an annuity 

 was about to be purchased, but before the deed was signed, 

 poor Jack died, so the money was divided among his family. 

 He never really seemed to settle down after his occupation 

 was gone, and his whole talk was of hunting and the Sinning- 

 ton hounds. He only lived a year after he had laid aside 

 his horn, dying on November 13th, 1891, just when another 



