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the whip IS interdicted by the Duke of 

 Beaufort. 



The Marquis of Worcester, with un- 

 daunted resolution, determined to perform 

 the arduous undertaking of hunting the 

 hounds, and when it is remembered that 

 he holds a commission in the Blues, it is 

 indeed a bold adventure. Tom Clark's 

 services were dispensed with in 1868, 

 when the Marquis commenced, having 

 Heber Long and Robert Pickard for his 

 two whips. The following season Charles 

 Hamblin was engaged as kennel huntsman, 

 in addition to which he was entrusted with 

 the cubhunting. Charles Hamblin's his- 

 tory is briefly told. Recommenced in the 

 Rufford country, and had sixteen years' 

 drilling with that most talented of amateur 

 huntsmen. Captain Percy Williams. When 

 those hounds were sold, he went to the 

 Grove, William Merry being at that time 

 huntsman, — but the following year John 



