4 HOUND AND HORN ; 



huntsman had attained to the age of seventy-three 

 years, and it being considered by the committee that 

 the post was becoming too arduous for him, George 

 Carter was persuaded to retire, though rather against 

 his will, when he took up his residence in the village 

 of Milton, in Pewsey Yale. But still the same love 

 of the old sport burned bright within him, and the 

 hearty greetings which always awaited him at the 

 coverside, whenever he came out with the old pack, 

 or with any other pack in the neighbourhood, showed 

 how he still carried wdth him the respect and esteem 

 of all, from the highest to the lowest. 



As a huntsman, whether in the kennel or in the 

 field, George Carter has never been surpassed. Of a 

 fine commanding figure, which he carried upright as 

 a dart almost to the last, whether he were on foot or 

 in the saddle; with a sedate and rather stern ex- 

 pression of countenance, till his face lighted up with 

 a smile ; wuth a wonderful rich cheery voice, and with 

 a manner noted for its courtesy, he showed that he was 

 a man who never forgot himself by taking a liberty 

 and one with whom no one but a fool or a madman 

 would venture on an impertinent familiarity. George 

 Carter stood as it were alone, or at least one of that 

 very rare class called "nature's gentlemen." He was 

 twice married and had a numerous family; three 



