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years, and was followed by Mr. Codrington, who 

 also lived at Burnford House until his death in 

 1842. Then came Captain Shedden, formerly in the 

 17th Lancers, from 1842 to 1853 ; Mr. Theobald ; 

 Rev. E. Timson of Tatchbury Mount ; Captain 

 Morant from i860 to 1869 ; and Mr. Standish for 

 five seasons, until I took the Forest Country in 

 the spring of 1874. 



It came about in this way. I had heard that 

 Lord Wolverton intended to bring his pack of 

 bloodhounds from Dorsetshire to hunt the deer 

 in the Forest; the idea of this took me down 

 into those parts to see the fun. His pack con- 

 sisted of about fifteen couple big black-and-tan 

 hounds on a very large scale with a beautiful 

 " cry,'' and they had the reputation of going a 

 great pace over the Dorsetshire Downs when 

 hunting carted deer. These hounds were kept 

 at Lord Wolverton' s place, Iwerne Minster, near 

 Blandford. Whyte-Melville delighted in hunting 

 with them, and used to speak in raptures of their 

 performances, but from my recollection of them 

 in the New Forest they seemed to me to be 

 rather a failure there. They did not like the thick 

 undergrowth in the New Enclosures, nor did they 

 enjoy the tracts of heather land ; also, they seemed 

 to be very independent, and if there was any 

 noise or the whip used they were apt to turn sulky 



