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loss. They also want Packington, but that belongs 

 to A. H." 



George Moore wrote again : 



" APPLEBY HALL, z^th April, 1850. 



" I have just returned from Birmingham, and 

 I hoped to have met you there. I had a room 

 all ready for you. I told all the people you were 

 coming to hunt the country, and I shall guarantee 

 you more money if you want it from prices, etc. 

 But come and talk it over and you shall not com- 

 plain, and I will make it agreeable. Thus writing, 

 we cannot get on. 



" I saw Madocks ; he was going home with Chet- 

 wynd ; he did not sell a horse. The Warwickshire, 

 the Pytchley and Joe Leedham want hounds. Joe 

 Leedham says they have not got a good young one 

 at Hoarcross. I must lot the hounds next week, so 

 you must come before that. 



" You must come, and for five years." 



I engaged George Cross as kennel huntsman. 

 His father was an Englishman, and farm-bailiff to 

 Captain Barclay of Ury. Cross was educated for a 

 veterinary surgeon, and at one time was an assistant 

 to Professor Dick in Edinburgh. He had a stable 

 at Monifief, and trained race-horses, but finding that 

 didn't pay, and being devoted to hunting, he became 

 whipper-in to Walker with the Fife Hounds. He 

 then became huntsman to the Bedale Hounds under 



Mr. Millbank. I think he remained there seven 

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