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CHAPTER XXX. 



LORD WATERPARk'S DIARY — " TOM " SMITH. 



1873-1874. 



The subscriptions for this year amounted to £3941 25. lOd., 

 while £167 185. 6d. was paid in compensation for damage. 

 In Mr. Meynell Ingram's time the huntsman paid all 

 claims for the poultry which farmers lost through foxes. 

 The Rev. A. Col vile, a welter weight, who went well, 

 especially on a bay, Mowcop, and a thick dun horse, came 

 as curate to the Rev. R. C Buckston, of Sutton-on-the- 

 Hill. The latter is the son of the famous Mr. German 

 Buckston mentioned before. Mr. Colvile left the Meynell 

 country in 1885. In this year, 1873, Mr. E. S. Chandos- 

 Pole, of Radburne, died. 



The new-comers seem to be Mr. Crowder, Master of 

 the Dove Valley Harriers, Mr. Mould, and Mr. George 

 Troutbeck. 



The entry for this season includes the famous Linkboy, 

 whose skin eventually decorated Charles's room. This was 

 a hound he was never tired of talking about, and no 

 wonder, for he was everything that a foxhound should 

 be — a good drawer — stout and staunch in chase, and he 

 would hunt the coldest scent. But he was a fearful 

 savage, being so quarrelsome that, when he was lent to 

 Mr. Corbet, that gentleman sent him back next day with 

 a note to say that he could not afford him a kennel to 

 himself! James Tasker took the place of G. Jones as 

 second whipper-in. 



