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him off the foiVd ground, and then we may catch him 

 and kill him." 



Another wonderful proof of the retentive powers of 

 memory in the old huntsman, particularly as regarded 

 hounds, may be given in the following incident, which 

 occurred within the last few years of his life. 



Sir Claude de Cres|)igny had resided at Durrington 

 Manor House for some few seasons, and while there 

 had hunted regularly with the Tedworth hounds. Some 

 time after he had left I received a letter, asking me if 

 I could find out from old George Carter anything 

 respecting a certain hound which was in the Duke of 

 Grafton's pack at the time he was acting as his Grace's 

 huntsman, and might possibly have come with him to 

 Tedworth. Sir Claude was, I believe, tracing out some 

 pedigrees ; at all events he wanted to know how the 

 hound in question was bred. I took an early oppor- 

 tunity of mentioning this to my old friend, and he said 

 at once — 



" Remember him ? Yes, of course I do ; he were a 

 very good hound, and came with me from the Duke 

 of Grafton to Mr, Smith's." 



" Can you tell me, old friend," I continued, " how he 

 was bred ? " 



" Yes," replied the huntsman, " he were by 



out of " (T forget the exact names) ; and 



