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Goddard and Fred Turpin ; Cooper was then 

 huntsman. 



I was walking from the station with Lord Henry 

 discussing the merits of various huntsmen. I said, 

 " Six days a week is too much for any man ". 

 He said, " When the Church is abolished, there 

 will be no obstacle to hunting seven". 



Jack Jones, formerly whipper-in in Fife in 1837, 

 and latterly huntsman to Lord Henry Bentinck, 

 and afterwards with the Lothian Hounds, on being 

 asked what he did when in Lord Henry's service, 

 said, " Hunted every day in the week and played 

 catch-ball on Sundays". On being asked what 

 he meant by catch-ball, he said, " Me and Lord 

 Henry used to chuck a ball in the grass yard for 

 the young ones to run after, to see what sort of 

 action they had. Lord a' mercy, how I cussed that 

 ball!" 



This season George Moore and I had a team 

 of Charlie Ward's for Ascot Races. Lady Harriet 

 St. Clair went with us, Hugo Meynell and Harry 

 Boucheret. Coming home on the top of the hill in 

 the Long Walk, the carriage in front stopped sud- 

 denly and threw my leaders back on the bars. The 

 near leader fired a salute, then jumped forward, and 

 drew the rein through my hand, and the coach ran 

 on to the grass. The road is very high above the 

 park, and we were on the level of the branches of an 

 oak tree. I got a pull at them, and set their heads 

 straight, and went down the hill at a gallop on the 

 grass. When we got on the road again, Lady 



