14 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



the meadows near Eastcourt House, over the 

 brook to the fourteen acres at Braydon ; there, I 

 think, we got among fresh foxes. It was a 

 lucky day for me, as I had a front seat all the 

 way. 



Colonel Poulett Somerset had mounted me 

 on a well-bred chestnut horse called Happy 

 Land, which he purchased from Ben Land, the 

 steeplechase trainer. I bought the horse the 

 next day and renamed him Paradise, but he 

 soon became ''Paradise Lost,'' as he was one 

 of five hunters which Granville Somerset bought 

 in a lump from me for £500 one evening towards 

 the end of that season. 



Clark resigned suddenly in 1868, and from 

 that time Lord Worcester (then just come of 

 age) hunted the hounds. The celebrated Great 

 Wood run, in which he so much distinguished 

 himself, took place on 21st February 1871. The 

 late Duke's fame was known to all the world as 

 the best of sportsmen and the kindest of friends ; 

 by nature he was endowed with courtesy and other 

 attributes which rendered him a most popular 

 Master of Hounds, and no one who hunted with 

 him for a single day could fail to notice his never- 

 failing exertions to show sport. Weather made no 

 difference to him, and his hounds seldom went 

 home until dusk ; his dog language and hunting 



