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done in the first Instance, and I should strongly 

 recommend anyone placed in a similar position 

 to adopt that course without the slightest 

 hesitation." Fortunately, Mr. Swindell had 

 foreseen from the first outbreak that this course 

 might become necessary ; so he commenced 

 to get another lot of hounds together. In 

 this endeavour he met with the greatest help 

 from other Masters, as indeed is invariably 

 the case under such circumstances. Amongst 

 others Mr. Swindell was greatly assisted by 

 Mr. Ames, then Master of the Worcestershire, 

 and Lord Onslow, who had the Ripley and 

 Knaphill Harriers. To keep these new 

 hounds quite separate from the infected pack, 

 Mr. Swindell put up temporary kennels half a 

 mile away, and hunted them on alternate days 

 with the other pack. Fred Mitchell, who had 

 been with Lord Ferrers as second horseman, 

 and came with Mr. Swindell from Gloucester- 

 shire and Staffordshire, was his kennel hunts- 

 man at the time. His master says of his 

 services, " I shall never forget the way he 

 worked during the whole of that most trying 

 time, with two separate kennels to look after." 

 Mitchell went from Mr. Swindell to the 

 " Albrighton." He was succeeded by James 

 Budd, who remained with Mr. Swindell as 

 kennel huntsman and first whip, until he gave 



