174 The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 



housekeeping. An income of £700 a year, 

 exclusive of all Hunt expenses, would be 

 sufficient for me. Hoping to hear full par- 

 ticulars. 



I am, dear Sir, yrs. truly, 



H.' C. W. 



How moderately easy would be the position 

 of a Master of Hounds, if we could engage 

 ourselves in that capacity, under the 

 above conditions ! ! The only proviso 

 being, that one should be a bachelor, and 

 the elderly housekeeper, perhaps a '* crab.*' 

 To turn from the comic to the sad ; in May 

 of this year, a very good friend to fox-hunting 

 passed away in the person of Admiral The 

 Honble. W. C. Carpenter, whose coverts at 

 Kiplin were always a sure find. Although 

 very short-sighted, he rode most gallantly, 

 up to the end of his life, on well-bred horses ; 

 and when hounds really ran, ' * The 

 Admiral ' ' was generally not very far from 

 their sterns. 



1904—05. On the 8th October, a some- 

 what curious incident happened when hounds 

 met at Newton House. Much to my sur- 

 prise when I got there some minutes before 

 the time advertised for meeting, I heard 

 hounds running hard in Gatenby wood. 

 As I was, owing to the Master's absence, in 

 charge that day, I was much annoyed at 

 the huntsman having moved off before my 

 arrival. It turned out to have been unin- 

 tentional. As hounds were coming along 



