INTRODUCTION. 



THE Author of these reminiscences, 

 Mr. George Eace, the veteran 

 Master of the Biggleswade Harriers, 

 is the doyen of English hunting, and the 

 oldest Master in the Kingdom. 



To have followed hounds for eighty odd 

 years, and to have been Master for those 

 " three score years and ten " usually 

 accounted the allotted span of human Hfe, 

 surely is a record which would invest that 

 sportsman's recollections with more than 

 ordinary interest. But that the achieve- 

 ments in the field herein narrated — in the 

 Author's own style wherever possible — will 

 themselves provide entertaining and instruc- 

 tive reading, is also the Editor's hope. 



