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is carrying a whip — the famous Grenfell brothers are in that 

 photograph too. Old Lock was going strong all the time, his 

 knowledge of the country was marvellous, and he always turned 

 up at the right place. He ran a Turkish Bath too. I used to 

 visit it, as I was bothered with rheumatism, and the old fellow 

 used to pommel you to bits after the bath." 



The other letter is from H. R. Milvain, Master of the Hmit 

 of his own name near Alnwick in Northumberland. He hunted 

 the E.C.H. in 1898, the last year of the High Street kennels. 



" 1898 was the year I hunted them, my whippers-in being 

 Chapman, A. D. Pilkington and W. Hodgson. Hodgson was 

 laid up for some time in March, and one of the Grenfells usually 

 whipped in instead of him. I am sorry I have no note of the 

 number of hounds I had, but remember had to buy a few at the 

 beginning of the season from Wilton, the dealer at Han well — 

 one of them in particular, ' Windsor,' was a very good hound. 

 Up till and including my Mastership practically no hounds were 

 bred, and at the end of the season they were taken away to walk 

 by any fellows who could manage them, generally returning to 

 kennel some time during the Christmas Half. I brought about 

 six or seven couples up here during the Christmas holidays, 

 December 1897, and hunted them here. Lock was still kennel 

 huntsman, and hounds were kennelled in the town behind his 

 shop, which wasn't at all a good arrangement ; old Lock did most 

 of the walking out, etc. I think Grenfell, who followed me, got 

 the new kennels built and got Champion as kennel huntsman. 

 Lock by that time was getting old, and couldn't get about very 

 well. You will probably have the old official diary with accounts 

 of all the hunts, but if not I've got it all down in my hunting 

 diary and can give 3^ou any more information you want if you let 

 me know. We had a good season and a fair number of hares in 

 most parts of the country. 



*' The best days I think were Saturday, February 12th, 

 Shepherd's Hut. Found at once and ran fast for 55 minutes, 

 killing in the open. Found again near river, and running up to 

 Dorney Village turned back over Dorney Common and killed on 

 river bank opposite Water Oakley in 20 minutes. 



'* Tuesday, March 12th, Shepherd's Hut. Found Dorney 

 Common, ran fast for 15 minutes, losing her on river bank near 

 Water Oakley. Found again near Dorney and ran hard for 

 1 hour 10 minutes, having to stop hounds in the dark close to 

 Bray Lock. Had some good days in Hargreaves Park country, 

 too." 



Right up to this time the E.C.H. was rather a scratch concern. 



