230 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



Before he took the Cottesmore Mr. Henley- 

 Greaves had lived and hunted in the Bads- 

 worth country in the latter part of the long 

 Mastership (forty-three years) of Lord Hawke. 

 While there Mr. Greaves was always a liberal 

 supporter of the hunt, and it came to pass on 

 leaving the country he found himself the 

 creditor of the hunt to the tune of ^500. Mr. 

 Greaves offered to take ten couples of hounds, 

 of his own choosing, in lieu of the debt, which 

 the committee accepted. These hounds formed 

 the basis of his Cottesmore pack. With the 

 hounds went Lord Hawke's huntsman, Butler. 



Butler was a very capable servant, but had 

 a very rough tongue, and Mr. Greaves found 

 himself obliged to get rid of him. Mr. George 

 Lane Fox speaking of him before he entered 

 Mr. Greaves's service, said : " Butler was a 

 clever man ; he could breed a pack of hounds, 

 he could break a pack, he could hunt a pack, 

 and he could kill his fox, but he could never 

 make H. . . a sportsman." Butler had a son, 

 a particularly smart servant, who was hunts- 

 man to Sir Regfinald Graham. 



While master of the Cottesmore Mr. Greaves 

 had occupied Cottesmore Hail. On taking the 

 Southwold he removed to Harrington Hall, 

 but he left the Southwold after only one season, 

 on account of the scarcity of foxes. While 



