96 REMINISCENCES OF 



Queen's Bench Prison for, I think, two months. I 

 often went to see him. He wrote the names of all 

 his visitors on the window with a diamond, and for 

 exercise he used to spar with Alex. Reid, the prize- 

 fighter. 



October, 1842. At Ipswich, in the autumn, we 

 decided to have a pack of staghounds. All the fel- 

 lows in the regiment entered into it cordially, and all 

 the gentlemen in the country gave us permission 

 Sir William Middleton, Mr. Shawe of Kes- 

 grave, Colonel Lloyd Anstruther of Hintlesham, 

 etc. Hughes sent to Wales for his hounds nine 

 couple ; some of them the smooth Welsh sort, with 

 sharp noses and rather light of bone. 



Lord Rosslyn was then Master of the Buck- 

 hounds. He gave us a couple which were too slow 

 for Her Majesty's pack. Mr. Nunn, Master of Essex 

 and Suffolk, gave us a couple and a half " Talis- 

 man," "Wrangler" and "Faustus". We got two 

 couple from Harry Villebois. 



The kennels were at Bramford Mill ; Mr. Ed- 

 wards, the tenant, compounded for 6 rent for the 

 season. Sam Ritcher was kennel huntsman. He 

 had been with a pack of harriers a good keen chap, 

 wages eighteen shillings per week. 



I went to London and bought a hind from Her- 

 ring ; called it " Salt- Fish ". Lord Rosslyn gave us 

 another hind. Mr. Morgan, a farmer at Bramford, 

 kept the deer for us, and he had a fallow buck called 

 " Bob ". A carpenter named Forsdyke drove the 

 deer cart. Huntsman, J. A. T. ; first whip, John 



