6 The Fourth Duke of Grafton. 



I may relate one little incident, or rather two, 

 for it was double-barrelled : — 



George Beers was in his zenith, hunting a rare 

 pack in the Oakley country ; it Avas in the year 

 1838. Carter, a great fox-catcher, doing the 

 same in the Grafton country. Both packs w^ere 

 on the eastern side, from the Grafton. Beers 

 found a fox one afternoon, a long way down in 

 the Chase, and ran him for his Hfe up to Salcey 

 Forest. He had no sooner reached the forest 

 than he found Carter's hounds breaking up his 

 fox. Beers behaved better than one might have 

 expected, knowing his failing, a hasty temper. 

 He said to Carter, '' I will be even with you, old 

 boy, one day." 



During the following season the two packs 

 were hunting in the same district. Carter's fox 

 ran into the Chase ; Beers heard them coming, 

 collected his hounds, and set his whippers-in to 

 look out. It was not long before they viewed 

 Carter's fox ; Beers took up the line, and killed 

 him. The latter came up and said to Beers : 

 '' You have killed my fox ! " 

 '' Yes, old man, now we are quits ! " 

 Since that time nothing of the kind has 

 occurred. Mr. Arkwright, who hunted the Oakley 

 for so many years, never made an appointment on 



