SEVENTY YEARS A MASTER 



A HUNTSMAN'S REMINISCENCES. 



Chapter I. 



EARLY MEMORIES. 



T WAS born at Stratton Lodge, Biggleswade, 

 on November 23rd, 1818. I was educated 

 at the Rev. John Fell's School at Huntingdon, 

 and after they had made " a very smart 

 youth " of me there, I was drafted back home, 

 and there soon found plenty to occupy my 

 time — in sport. I cannot remember when I 

 was not mixed up with horses and hounds, 

 and I think my father must have put me 

 across a pony before I could properly walk. 



I saw Mr. Charles Barnett find his first 

 cub with the Cambridgeshire Hounds, in the 

 year 1829, and as a youngster I had many a 

 good run with them in the years that followed, 



