RECOLLECTIONS OF GEORGE CARTER. 9 



at Ted worth which he still felt competent to fill. 

 Nor did this feeling altogether die away for some 

 time ; and for more than one season after his appoint- 

 ment as huntsman I observed that Jack Fricker did 

 not often return home from the Oare Hill side of the 

 country through Milton ; and I always fancied there 

 was not the best possible feeling towards him from my 

 old friend. Now, I won't take credit for a moment 

 for anything which might have occurred in after years, 

 but I am thankful to say this feeling gradually dis- 

 appeared, and I believe the present huntsman of the 

 Tedworth never after this felt more pleasure than 

 when he could come home by Milton, and stop, if 

 only for a few^ moments, jiist to let " Master " — as 

 I believe he always addressed him — know what he 

 had done. 



As the hunting seasan came round, after his coming 

 to reside at Milton, I hoped that George Carter would 

 have occasionally come out with the old pack, as he 

 had a " tidy cottage," as he expressed it, with stabling, 

 &c., about six acres of meadow land, and he had 

 also a very nice easy galloway kind of horse, which 

 had been sent to him by his son Andrew ; but at first 

 it was no go with him, and if I remember right, it was 

 not till the second year of his being at Milton that 

 I could prevail on him to show his face at the covert 



