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as his do ; but I thought the hounds themselves 

 did credit to his judgment. They are fine slash- 

 ing animals, with great power and bone, and are 

 allowed to have as much hunt in them as their 

 owner has zeal ; and truly that is in abundance. 

 Tattler, Cruiser, and Juggler would be an orna- 

 ment to any pack. The subscription, I under- 

 stand, amounts only to £1.7$ per annum, which 

 may, perhaps, with good management, find meal 

 for the hounds, as the pack is small, only consisting 

 of twenty-six couples of hunting hounds, and this 

 year not more than four couples to come in. 



** I have now done with Matthew Wilkinson 

 and his hounds. Long may he live to enjoy his 

 favourite sport ; and when he is gone let his 

 memory be cherished for the zeal he has shown 

 in the noble science of fox-hunting." 



Later on in the forties the name of Frank 

 Coates appears as the huntsman with much 

 local celebrity. After him, in the fifties, came 

 Will Danby, who had seen service with both the 

 Holderness and the York and Ainsty, but all this 

 seems to have come to an end somewhere about 

 the year i860, when another generation of the 

 old Wilkinson family became Master, with the 

 well-known Mr. Thomas Parrington as hunts- 

 man finding his own horses. 



This Squire Wilkinson, however, seems to 

 have had but a short innings, as he died in 1861. 

 About that date the second Duke of Cleveland 



