154 Seventy Years a Master. 



I could not express my pleasure. " You 

 shall, then," said I, ''and no better Hunts- 

 man could I wish to find." 



He went out into the Kennels there and 

 then, and made acquaintance with the 

 hounds. Next day, as the Cambridgeshire 

 met on this side of their country, he called 

 again, and again spent about half-an-hour with 

 the pack. On the Tuesday he hunted them, 

 and every hound in the pack knew him, and 

 he knew every hound. 



They found a hare that day on Mr. Hugh 

 Smyth's farm at Edworth, and killed her 

 on the Willbury Hills, a real good run, 

 nearly a six-mile point. 



George Evans finished that season with 

 them, showing any amount of sport. He was 

 a splendid sportsman, and one of the best 

 Huntsmen I ever knew; but, like myself, he 

 was a rare one to '' let out " at everybody 

 near him if the least Httle thing went wrong. 

 Yet his Whipper-in, George Thomas, is very 

 proud of being able to say that he turned 

 hounds to him nearly every day he hunted 



