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sometimes caused him to part with horses and 

 hounds injudiciously, and, indeed, if either failed 

 to come up to his standard of perfection, which 

 was a pretty high one, he would as soon shoot or 

 hang them as not. 



On one occasion Mr. Hornsey begged for a 

 couple of draft hounds for a friend who had a 

 pack of harriers, and great was his surprise the 

 next morning when he saw that the Colonel had 

 sent three couple, the only fault being that they 

 were rather smaller than Col. Fairfax cared for. 



But the trouble that wholesale drafting like 

 this might have caused was obviated by the care 

 that was taken in breeding, and when, to the 

 regret of all who knew him, and of many whose 

 knowledge of him was confined to an acquaintance 

 with his high reputation as a sportsman, failing 

 health compelled him to resign, he handed over 

 a much improved and thoroughly efficient pack 

 of hounds to his successors. 



Captain Slingsby took hold in 1879, with 

 Hollidge as huntsman, but he only stayed one 

 season, and was succeeded by Gillson, who carried 

 the horn under four masters until L887, when 

 Arthur Wilson came from the Belvoir. 



After Capt. Slingsby resigned in 1883, Mr. 

 H. D. Brocklehurst carrying on for a couple of 

 seasons, and then Col. York took hold. He 

 died before the end of his first season, and 

 was succeeded by Mr. Lycett Green, in whose 



