138 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



and at that time it was asserted that, except upon 

 occasions when duty called him to the House of 

 Lords, he had only missed three days with his 

 pack during that long period. 



It was said that he never shirked any part of 

 the hunting business by leaving it to others, but 

 was content to go through the cub -hunting 

 himself season after season. 



In those days there was probably no other 

 record in the history of sport which could compare 

 with the description of that famous establishment 

 at Raby, as during Lord Darlington's long reign 

 the Hunt was maintained entirely by his own 

 resources, and the scale upon which matters were 

 conducted is perhaps shown by the fact that he 

 paid ;^340 a year to his tenants north of the Tees 

 for the rent of his own fox coverts. 



However long the day's work, he never missed 

 making notes of the sport in his Diary before that 

 day was over, and this hunting chronicle he 

 allowed to be published from year to year under 

 the name of '* The Operations of the Raby 

 Pack." 



After his death in 1842, at the age of seventy- 

 six, he was succeeded by his son, who afterwards 

 became known as Duke Henry. As the country 

 had not been hunted for the previous three or four 

 years, some of the fox coverts had got into bad 



