John Clays Hunling Story {^Continued from page 35) 



In the spring time, if he got back in time, he would 

 change his clotlies, get into a boat and catch a salmon in 

 the stream made by the junction of the Tweed and Teviot. 

 In my day he hunted four days a week. Monday and 

 Friday in Northumberland and Tuesday and Saturday in 

 Berwickshire. He was one of the old type of artistocrats 

 in looks, manner and language; of the latter he had fine 

 command — very forcible and sometimes exceedingly 

 naughty. We looked upon him as a sort of a demi-god 

 and you were certainly trained the way you should go 

 while following his hounds. He hunted them at his own 

 expense and he had very little respect for his followers. 

 Withal he was wonderfully popular. 



My father moved his residence in 1867 to Roxburgh- 

 shire. We were just west of the Northumberland coun- 

 try and continued to hunt occasionally with his Lordship, 

 although our home was in the Buccleuch country. There 

 under the greatest huntsman it has ever been my lot to 

 meet, I really got my hunting education. William Shore 

 hunted the above hounds for nearly forty years. He was 

 an accomplished horseman, had a fine eye for country and 

 was never far from hounds. He was an autocrat in the 

 field having a very acid tongue, but as he produced mar- 

 velous sport, he was forgiven. Away from the hunting 

 field or on the way home after the day's sport, he was 

 the most delightful of men, versed in folk lore, well read 

 in all kinds of Uterature, a keen humor running through 

 his conversation. When he left this earthly scene I lost 

 one of my best friends. I hear this evening as I write 

 the echo of his horn, the deep sonorous note of his voice 

 as he cheered his pack and made the woodlands ring. 

 Many a time, with a bad catchy scent, he walked his fox 

 to death, a slow, patient, marvelous piece of business 

 requiring wonderful skill and knowledge. He was a hero 

 to the boys, a guide to the older hands and in this way 



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H. S. CAYWOOD 



Breeder, Dealer and Finisher 

 of five and three gaited 

 Kentucky saddle horses. :: 

 Good supplies of well man- 

 nered horses on hand at 

 all times — prices reasonable. 

 Always some show prospects 

 in my barn. Sold the one 

 that beat all horses over 15 — 

 2 at Goshen last year. 



H. S. CAYWOOD 

 North Middletown, Kentucky 



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