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Irishman, and Mr. Lovell engaged him as his 

 huntsman. I am sure he never regretted it. 



Allen was born and bred in Bramham Moor, 

 and started his hunting career as second horse- 

 man to old Charles Treadwell, to whom I have 

 already referred as the man who started me 

 on the way that I should go, in the direction 

 of hunting. He was in various services during 

 his career, and had perhaps no more important 

 place than the period he spent under Mr. Parry 

 as huntsman to the Puckeridge. 



To us he came in later life, from Sir George 

 Brooke, whose beautiful pack of harriers he had 

 hunted in Co. Dublin and in Kildare. Nothing 

 was thought good enough to put forward by 

 Sir George but Belvoir and Brocklesby bred 

 hounds, and perhaps his standard of 21 inches 

 was a trifle elastic. But whenever the Ward 

 left out a stag on the Kildare side, and asked 

 Sir George to give a bye-day to recover him, that 

 stag quickly found that he had not changed his 

 situation for the better when these speedy bitches 

 were after him. He seldom kept dog-hounds. 



Allen was a thorough hound-man. It did 

 not require much assistance from me to persuade 

 Mr. Lovell into our joint belief as to the excel- 

 lence of Bramham Moor blood. 



The late Mr. George Lane Fox was a kind 



