THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN 

 THE NEW FOREST 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTION 



I WAS born at Goldsbrough in Yorkshire in 

 October 1849, and, like many other natives of that 

 county, especially those who bear the same name 

 as myself, I became keenly interested in sport 

 from my very early days. At the age of six 

 I was duly blooded by Charles Treadwell, who 

 was huntsman to the Bramham Moor hounds for 

 twenty-three years. 



I went through the usual course of education 

 at Eton and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. 

 I was never without a ferret at Eton, and gene- 

 rally had at the least a share in a dog. My 

 Cambridge days were, perhaps, the happiest of my 

 life. We had then a very cheery sporting set at 

 Magdalene. Among them Sir Charles Fitzwilliam, 

 now Crown Equerry to His Majesty; the late 

 J. Maunsell Richardson, who, besides playing 



