FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 137 



model which had formerly been designed by Sir 

 Edgar Boehm. 



In 1904, Mr. Moubray started as the new 

 Master, with Frank Freeman as his huntsman, 

 and probably the present excellence of the pack 

 is to some extent due to the way in which he 

 handled them for two seasons. It was an un- 

 lucky day for the Master and the Hunt when 

 Freeman forsook the Bedale for the white collar 

 of the Pytchley. 



Another northern Pack is Lord Zetland's, 

 formerly the old Raby Hunt, which was hunted 

 by Lord Darlington (afterwards ist Duke of 

 Cleveland), for at least fifty years. He began 

 with a turn of the Badsworth country, where he 

 was celebrated in song as follows : 



** Then first in the burst, see dashing away, 

 Taking all in his stroke on Ralpho the grey ; 

 With persuaders in flank, comes Darlington's peer, 

 With his chin sticking out and his cap on one ear." 



He then undertook the immense territory 

 of both the Raby and the Bedale countries, until 

 he gave up the latter in 1832, the former in 1839, 

 and died in 1842. Throughout life he was also 

 an immense pillar on the turf, and the pink-and- 

 black stripes were victorious all over England. 



When *'Nimrod'' visited Yorkshire in 1826, 

 Lord Darlington was then in his 37th season 



