RECOLLECTIONS OF GEORGE CARTER. 3 



reputation, and on his Grace's hounds being sold in 

 18-42 the Squire of Tedworth secured the lot, with 

 the understanding that George Carter was to come 

 with them, or, as it is said he expressed it, ''He 

 bought the hounds and George Carter." As Mr. 

 Assheton Smith hunted his own hounds four days a 

 week, the remaining two were assigned to George 

 Carter with a third pack, and every Wednesday 

 throughout the season found him in Wherwell Wood, 

 which he rented of the Vine, and on Saturday he 

 was at the extreme southern side, or rather a part 

 which Mr. Smith secured from the New Forest Hunt. 

 This country extended from Speerywell to Clarendon 

 Park, or beyond it. 



It was said of Mr. Assheton Smith, that his erreat 

 ambition was to have it recorded of him that he had 

 hunted hounds at eighty years of age, but this he never 

 accomplished. About two years before his death, 

 finding^ himself no lonojer able to do so much in the 

 saddle, he presented one pack to the Craven, cut his 

 OAvn hunting days with the Tedworth down to four in 

 the week, and left the entire management to George 

 Carter. On the death of Mr. Assheton Smith, the 

 hounds were left in the country, and a committee of 

 management was formed, with the Marquis of 

 Ailesbury as master, and in 1865, when the old 



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