40 C^e Wensiepaaie l>ouna$ 



per week for feeding and cleaning kennels 

 through the summer months. 



Before proceeding farther let me add that, with 

 reference to the name of the late huntsman, 

 J. Percival, a better, truer and keener all-round 

 sportsman never lived. He was my factotum, not 

 only in hunting, but also when sahnon fishing and 

 grouse shooting. His name was well known on 

 Bowes Moor. He never knew when he was tired. 

 Many a time have I asked him, when heavily laden 

 with grouse to leave them to pick up later, but he 

 invariably replied, "You go on killing, the more 

 we get, the better I can carry them." The only 

 time I ever recollect his giving in was on the 12th 

 August, 1872, when I killed eighty-five brace of 

 grouse on Bowes Moor, point shooting, over my 

 black setter dog, "Dash." Alas ! poor man, he 

 was found dying in the river below Aysgarth Fors, 

 he had been fishing, and actually had a live trout 

 on his line when found. So it may, indeed, be 

 truly said that he died in harness. The cause 

 of death was apoplexy. His nephew, W. Percival 

 is now Squire Tomlinson's huntsman. 



