y6 George Beers, Huntsman. 



rivalry between those two. With a fox from " Jane 

 Ball" there was a good scent, and hounds ran 

 very hard indeed for thirty-five minutes. There 

 was plenty of room for the ambitious, and when it 

 came to a pinch Mr-. Tailby showed what he was 

 made of, and very good form too. Just as the 

 fox ought to have been overhauled Jack made a 

 bad cast and lost him. It struck me that he did 

 not shine so brightly in the office of huntsman as 

 he did in that of whipper-in to Jem Hills. He 

 was a fine horseman — a nice fellow too ; but these 

 qualities do not constitute a fox-catcher. 



In the autumn of i860 the first Lady Southamp- 

 ton died. The hounds were stopped for a proper 

 period ; after which Beers, in the Master's absence, 

 hunted them in his usual form, his son Frank 

 whipping in. Mr. Lowndes then took the upper 

 country back again, sport still flourishing in the 

 northern part of the hunt. 



One very good run George had from Stowe 

 Wood. A run hard to beat. It was a frosty 

 morning, but not hard enough to stop hounds ; 

 there was a very large Field out, including Lord 

 Spencer and many other hard-riding men who 

 lost a fine run through not paying attention to the 

 hounds. The fox went away at the Everdon 

 corner, bore to the right over Weedon Hill, over the 



