7 8 George Beers, Huntsman. 



side. I caught his horse and asked him if he was 

 hurt. He burst out with " Ask a fellow if he is 

 hurt after a fall like that ! How could he help 

 being hurt ! ! " He went grumbling away, but I 

 could not find out that there was any injury beyond 

 the temper. 



Beers alw^ays thought very highly of the Osbal- 

 deston Furrier blood, and he left many of the 

 sort in the pack, twenty couples at least, most 

 of them from that capital dog Marquis. Lord 

 Southampton had this dog's portrait painted, and 

 gave Beers the picture, and also the portrait 

 of a noted hound his Lordship had in Leicester- 

 shire, named Hazard, bred by the Marquis of 

 Tavistock. Marquis was a very savage hound 

 at a drain or at the death of a fox. I once had 

 to stand in my own defence and hit him to keep 

 him off me ; this he never forgot nor forgave and 

 he ever after set his bristles up at me. Whenever 

 I w^ent into the kennel Beers used to say, '' Put 

 that old dog away or we shall have no peace." 



The last season was a good one ; we had many 

 strangers out and gave them plenty of sport. 



On one occasion a fox was found near Grub's 

 Coppice, and ran a good line, leaving Cold 

 Higham to the left, over the turnpike road 

 Caldecote field and Tiffield, Shoseley Ground, 



