CHAPTER IX. 



FRANK BEERS, HUNTSMAN. 



Frank Beers was about twenty-six years of 

 age when he was appointed huntsman. I had 

 known him froiji the time when he was a boy of 

 twelve years of age, having first seen him riding 

 on a pony in the Chase, with the Oakley, to which 

 pack his father was then huntsman. He was soon 

 after in top boots and scarlet, riding second horse. 

 Frank went to Lord Yarborough as under whipper- 

 in to William Smith, until there was a change to 

 Tom Smith, a brother. He could not have been 

 more than twenty-one) ears old when Mr. Oldacre 

 engaged him to go to Russian-Poland to take a 

 pack of hounds, and hunt the wolf for a foreign 

 Count. He remained there until the war broke 

 out, when all foreigners were sent home. Frank 

 much regretted the change, and it was several 

 years before he became reconciled. 



