A HUNT WITH LORD ANNALY 



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success of the day's sport. A striking figure in the 

 saddle and one who goes across country in the 

 smoothest possible style, Freeman served a brilliant 

 apprenticeship as whipper-in to the Belvoir, and 

 afterwards the Cheshire. Going as huntsman later 

 to the Bedale, which has proved an excellent school 



Will Dale, huntsman to the Duke of Beaufort, blowing his silver whistle. 



for hound-work and dogged perseverance when 

 hunting a fox. To-day Frank Freeman is a brilliant 

 exponent of the "noble science," one of the best of 

 the new school of huntsmen, very quiet with his 

 hounds and never in front of them, possessing a 

 marvellous intuitive instinct as to the run of a 

 fox. Tall and slight, with the suspicion of a stoop, 

 Freeman is to the manner born, and comes of an 

 illustrious family of huntsmen. 



When Lord Annaly rode up, the hounds greeted 

 him in joyous fashion, for he is one of those who 

 loves to watch them in their work ; riding along 



