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to the Warwickshire for two couple of bitches, and 

 Carter led his out of the ring as though caring 

 nothing about second place. When brought back 

 again to receive the red riband, there was plenty of 

 chaff flying about, but the laugh was with him, for 

 he presented the appearance of a recruiting ser- 

 geant decorated all over with winning ribands. 



Poor old George Carter had a good innings at 

 Milton. Coming into the service of the FitzwilUam 

 family in 1845 at £12 a year as whipper-in under 

 Tom Seabright, he completed forty-three years' ser- 

 vice, and died in 1889 quite a rich man, leaving 

 £17,000 behind him. 



The mantle of Elijah has fallen on the shoulders 

 of Will Barnard, the present huntsman to Mr. 

 George Fitzwilliam, who came to Milton in 1900, 

 and repeats history, for he too is decorated with 

 winning ribands on every show occasion, like his 

 former commander-in-chief. Will Barnard is the 

 right man in the right place, for early in life he rode 

 whipper-in at Milton for four seasons under George 

 Carter, and worked in harmony with the old hunts- 

 man. Since the present master, Mr. George Fitz- 

 william, has undertaken the management of the 

 family pack, to the joy of the whole country-side, he 

 has entered heart and soul into the duties of the 

 field and the breeding of the kennel. The old 

 strains so famous in the past for nose, tongue, and 

 drive have been bred up to, and the type of hound 

 now found in the kennel has the size, bone, and 

 quality of those which made the woodlands ring 

 with melody in the seventies and eighties when 

 George Carter was invincible. We have had the 

 pleasure of a hunt with Mr. George Fitzwilliam's 

 hounds on one or two occasions, and there is no 

 keener master. Amongst the many winners in the 



