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man who carried out his Master* s theories to the 

 letter. He had a bad fall on his head and was 

 never quite the same afterwards, but he came 

 to me in the New Forest in 1875 and remained 

 in my service until he died in 1877. The 

 whippers-in were Harry Dawkins, W. Goodall 

 (afterwards with the Pytchley), W. Smith (still 

 with the Bramham Moor), and as a quartet of 

 hunt servants they were probably never sur- 

 passed. Will Goodall (at Belvoir) and Dick 

 Burton (formerly with Osbaldeston) appear to 

 have been Lord Henry's models upon which he 

 based his system of hunting hounds in the field. 

 About his own achievements Lord Henry was 

 singularly reticent, and, when asked as to the 

 secret of his success in hound-breeding, he curtly 

 replied : ''I breed a great many hounds and I 

 hang a great many." 



After Lord Henry came Viscount Doneraile 

 from Ireland, for a season or two, and then in 

 1866 Mr. Henry Chaplin at the age of twenty- 

 five became the Master, purchasing the pack 

 for a large sum and hunting the Burton country 

 six days a week. Always a heavy-weight and 

 rather short-sighted, but gifted with heaven-born 

 hands, no one could beat the Squire of Blankney 

 over Wellingore or any other country. With a 

 natural knowledge of hunting, a quick eye for 



