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should act as Field Master, and take charge of 

 all arrangements. A whipper-in was provided to 

 help W. Perkins. 



In many ways this was the best arrangement 

 to adopt. It was better that the man who 

 hunted the hounds and lived at the kennels 

 should handle them in the field and bring them 

 home. Fewer hounds were left out than was 

 the case with a divided mastership, and I 

 always found the whipper-in anxious and willing 

 to avail himself of any hints which my longer 

 experience in deer-hunting could proffer him 

 I had got to know the run of half the bucks 

 throughout the Forest ! 



We were stopped by hard frost up to March 

 18th a notable thing in a mild southern county. 



We managed to show a good deal of sport 

 by sticking hard to business. I note one day 

 April 12, 1886 when we found three stags in 

 Busketts Wood, and tufted them for three whole 

 hours before we got one separated and then it 

 was a light galloping deer not the big fellow 

 we wanted. We then ran him right across the 

 Forest to Linford a nine mile point, and he 

 was killed after a two hours' hunt. A fair day's 

 work for men and horses. 



A week afterwards we had a good hunt with 

 one of the two stags left in Busketts. In this 



