94 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



Lord Kintore, Messrs. Douglas, Bunce, &c. In the 

 second chase Messrs. Mills, Codrington, Barker, were 

 well carried till nearly the end of the day. One 

 word to the noble huntsman of this pack and I 

 have done. Let him not try his horses' speed 

 against every puny whipster. His Lordship has the 

 conduct and the disposition of his hounds to attend 

 to. It is not for a general to expose his life against 

 every common trooper ; neither in casting nor in 

 going from covert to covert should more be taken 

 out of hounds than can be avoided ; upon their pluck 

 and spirit depends the event of a hard day. With a 

 little more consideration for himself and his pack 

 the Earl of Kintore will rank amongst the first 

 gentlemen huntsmen of the present day. 



Lord Kintore gave up the hounds seventy- 

 four years ago, and naturally no living member 

 of the hunt remembers his mastershio, but one 

 or tw^o can remember the man. The present 

 Mr. E. K. Lenthall, of Besselsleigh, walking 

 with his father in London, in 1843, "^^^ Lord 

 Kintore, and was presented to him; Lord Kin- 

 tore then introduced his son, Lord Inverurie, 

 with the words " Inverurie is a very good fellow, 

 his only fault is that he is not quite keen enough 

 about huntinp"." A few months after this inter- 

 view Lord Inverurie was killed hunting. He 

 had been living at the Inn at Brix worth, the 

 village where the Pytchley hounds were kept, 

 and hunted regularly with them. On the day 

 on which he was killed he was riding a favourite 

 mare, said to have been exceedingly clever at 



