WITH THE NORTH COTSWOLD HOUNDS 125 



leading hound seized him. The master confessed 

 afterwards that *' It was the first time in his hfe, 

 he was sorry that the fox had not just managed to 

 beat them at the finish ! " 



A year or so later, when Mr. Charles McNeill went 

 as master to the Grafton Hunt, his farmer friends 

 of the old North Cotswold country made him a 

 further presentation of a silver hunting-horn. 



The Cotswold stone walls. 



