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witnessed the whole incident. He was as 

 keen as old Bob, but he never let his enthu- 

 siasm get too strong for his true English 

 sporting instincts. 



Charles Barnett was a typical sportsman 

 and English gentleman, and it goes without 

 saying that he was very popular. Here is 

 one tribute which Hesketh Lethbridge paid 

 him and his pack, in the New Sporting 

 Magazine, in 1838 : — 



*' I am able to bear witness to this fact, 

 that I never saw a pack of hounds that 

 wanted less whipping-in, or that seemed more 

 determined to do or die, than the Cambridge- 

 shire. They are what I call a coarse-looking 

 hound, greatly dashed with the Fitzwilliam 

 blood, but they are a pack (from what I saw 

 of them) that, if I were a fox, I should be 

 decidedly afraid of being before. I never 

 saw a shrewder-looking or more civil servant 

 than the Huntsman . . . The opinions I 

 have expressed of this servant are formed 

 from the expression of his brow, which I 

 should say is all over what it ought to be 



