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intimately connected. After two seasons with Mr. Johnson, 

 that gentleman parted with his hounds, and Dale had a 

 spell with the Duke of Buccleuch's in Scotland ; then he 

 had a season as second lieutenant with the V.W.H., 

 hunted at that time by Will Bolton, who had whipped- 

 in to the last of the Smiths at Brockleshy. Next came 

 service with Lord Galway till 1871, where, under Jack 

 Morgan, he gained much valuable knowledge from which 

 he was not slow to profit ; he also cemented an alliance 

 with a hunting family of equal celebrity with his own by 

 marrying Jack Morgan's daughter, and when Will ruled 

 at Brocklesby and Sam at Grove the connection between 

 the two kennels became very intimate, and many good 

 strains in each pack is traced to a dash of blood from the 

 other. On leaving Lord Gal way's service, Dale became 

 first whipper-in to the Burton, under the mastership of 

 Mr. F. J. Saville Foljambe, who took over the hounds 

 from the last master of the Old Burton Hunt, Mr. Henry 

 Chaplin, the same year. Will Channing was huntsman 

 then. When he left, two seasons later, Dale was promoted 

 to the dignity of carrying the horn, and for ten years the 

 Burton men enjoyed such sport as will never be forgotten 

 in that country, and a finer exhibition of hard riding and 

 scientific huntsmanship no Hunt could wish for. But it is 

 not my province to deal with his doings in mid-Lincoln- 

 shire, and I must pass on to his connection with Lord 

 Yarborough's historic pack, just mentioning that, before 

 taking up his abode at Brocklesby, he had two more 

 seasons with the Burton under Mr. W. R. Erskine 

 Wemyss, and two with Lord Fitzw^lliam at Wentworth ; 

 but the gentlemen and farmers of the Burton Hunt pre- 

 sented him with a marble timepiece and a cheque for 

 four hundred guineas before parting with him. The 

 Lords of Yarborough have the reputation of never parting 

 with a good huntsman who cares to remain with tliem, 

 and it was only on account of the reduction of the estab- 

 lishment and the ofier of a lucrative post at the kennels 

 of an equally historic pack, the Badminton, that Dale 



