Fox-hunting Past and Present 



is estimated, totalled seventy-six years, his first 



hunting connection being the Cwmbran harriers. 



Anyhow, at Biggleswade Mr. G. Race still keeps 



a pack of harriers, and started his sixty-seventh 



season this year (1906-1907) as M.H. ; so his is a 



record. He has passed the late Mr. ]. Crosier's 



total seasons, viz. sixty-four, with the Blencathra, 



a wild Cumberland country. No longer an M.F.H., 



Mr. R. Watson has nearly sixty seasons to his 



credit with the Carlow foxhounds. But he can 



still hold his own with the Meath's, where that 



doyen of polo-players, his son, Mr. J. Watson, holds 



the reins of management. There is a wish that 



many of those good sportsmen to hounds to-day 



may celebrate their jubilees in due course ; such 



as the late Mr. Garth did, who had half a century's 



mastership before retirement ; Mr. T. W Knolles, 



M.F.H. in South Union, Ireland, fifty years or 



more ; Mr. E. Trewlett, in Devonshire, a like 



period in the Rev. ]. Russell's time. Then, from 



1 806-1858 Mr. Farquharson hunted a large tract 



of country, comprising South Dorset, much of the 



Blackmore Vale, and Cattistock — six days a week 



at his own expense ; Mr. Boothby holds the 



Quorn record of fifty-five years, and Mr. ]. Warde 



was M.F.H. of so many counties for nearly as long. 



Mr. Assheton Smith was an M.F.H. for fifty years 



in all. 



It is possible for many men who are not hard 



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