My best season was 1902-3 when I put in ninety-eight 

 days with hounds, generally riding to the meets. This 

 made a toil out of pleasure, in a way. I was at the death 

 of nearly one hundred foxes. 



In 1910 I took over the North Northumberland country 

 and was Master for five years, when the war stopped 

 proceedings so far as I was concerned. A Committee kept 

 the hunt going, my good friend, the Hon. F. W. Lambton, 

 bearing most of the burden. I became Master again 1st 

 March, 1919, and retired 1st May, 1920. The present in- 

 come tax and hunting hounds do not agree. While I 

 had the hounds, I ran them top-hole, to use a slang 

 expression, having August 1st, 1914, fifty couple of hounds 

 and twenty-five horses. The reason was that for many 

 years I had hunted in the Borderland for practically noth- 

 ing. Then I had an illustrious lot of predecessors — Lord 

 Wennyss, Watson-Askey, Sir John Majoribanks, Major 

 Hunter, Sir James Miller (winner of the Derby twice with 

 Sanfoin and Rocksand), Mrs. Burrell and James Fenwick, 

 all of them good sports. My successor is Col. Hugh 

 loicay, a fine sportsman of whom I hear good accounts. 



In writing for a Chicago Equestrian Society, the his- 

 tory of a horse purchased in Chicago should not be 

 omitted. My hunting pal, John S. Rigg, of Appleby, Eng- 

 land, one of the very best across country in England, 

 was over here purchasing hunters. One day he came 

 across a rough looking chestnut colt, big of limb, shortly 

 coupled with a blood looking head, but a bit thin in 

 his waist. This horse had cost $187.50 at auction. He 

 brought him to our stable on Lake Park Avenue. 



A day or two afterward, he tried him over some jumps. 

 He made a great grunt and of course that meant that he 

 would be crabbed on examination by a "vet". Rigg 

 was discouraged, so I said I would take him off his 

 hands as he looked like carrying me at the Yards or in 

 the park. 



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