1 6 George Carter^ Huntsman. 



They took their own hne, and swung over 

 the tops of the hedges, and famously matched 

 they were ; we came to three large ploughed fields, 

 still going evenly ; then grass again, big fences, 

 and so they went to the end, which was at the 

 Towcester Lodges, leading up to Easton Neston 

 House. Carter soon came up and asked where 

 hounds checked. '' Just here," was the reply. 

 ''He can't have gone over the wall, or up the 

 road ; he is about here somewhere," was his 

 remark. He called the hounds back to a large 

 hedge near the road. " Here he is ! " Carter 

 said, and hounds killed him. That was the last 

 day on which I hunted with Carter. My father, 

 who was in a weak state of health, broke a blood- 

 vessel, and passed away on the 21st of that month, 

 so I did not hunt again that season. 



Mr. Assheton-Smith came and bought the pack 

 in March, and Carter went with them. Ned 

 Stevens went to the Warwickshire as hunts- 

 man, and Will Dickens to Mr. Lowndes as first 

 whipper-in. 



