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has not been told for many years. Mr. Eichard 

 Dansey of Easton Court, my great-grandfather, may be 

 said to have been its first master, though he hunted 

 the Herefordshire side of the county more than in 

 Shropshire, while Mr. Childe, of Kinlet, took the Cleobury 

 and Clee Hill side. Mr. Adams came next, and lived at 

 Ludlow, with his coadjutor, Mr. Eobert Price of Bitterley, 

 a noted sportsman of his day, the father of Colonel 

 "R. H. Price, Master of the Radnorshire and West 

 Hereford Hounds. The picture of old Adams cheering 

 on his hounds, adorns many a South Shropshire wall. 

 Mr. Dansey was a great friend of Lord Forester, and of 

 Nimrod, and the latter speaks in very high terms of him 

 as a sportsman — his voice was so musical, and his style 

 of encouraging his hounds was so like Musters. A good 

 story is told of his having dismounted one day to alter 

 his girths or saddle, just as the hounds were finding 

 their fox, and being unable to mount very quickly, he, 

 at last, seized a favourable opportunity, and got well 

 back into his saddle. A lamentable disaster however 

 occurred — crack went his braces. ** There, by Jove," 

 said he to himself, ''there's a pretty job — I have only 

 taken to wear braces six weeks, and I'll bet a guinea 

 I lose my breeches before we kill this fox." Mr. 

 Dansey's son also hunted part of the Ludlow country, 

 and afterwards became Master of the Oakley. Mr. 

 Adams was celebrated for having a huntsman that rode 

 a mule, and had the best hands on ]iim that you could 

 conceive. After Adams and the second Mr. Dansey, 

 came Mr, Stubbs of the Whetmore — who, aided by 

 his son Orlando, a capital performer in the pigskin, and 

 on old Gideaway, Moorcock, and others farmed the local 



