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first whip he retained the services of Jack 

 Press, Frank Hayes remaining as second whip. 

 After a time Jack Press gave place to Harry 

 Price, the present kennel huntsman and first 

 whip, who came from the Taunton Vale, and 

 Frank Hayes left to be replaced by Charles 

 Morris, who came from the Badsworth. 

 Morris has now gone to the Pytchley and his 

 place as second whip has been taken by H. 

 Grange, who came from the Bedale. 



Mr. Wright is a veteran of the Chase. He 

 was blooded and got his first brush so long 

 ago as 1852, and so has more than completed 

 his half century in the field. When at Cam- 

 bridge he hunted a great deal with the Oakley, 

 under Mr. Robert Arkwright, and with the 

 Fitzwilliam. On leaving college he hunted 

 with the Badsworth, Lord Hawke being 

 Master. Lord Hawke was followed by Mr. 

 Barton, who lived at Stapleton. 



Mr. Wright himself took the Badsworth in 

 1873, when he was only 25 years of age. 

 His huntsman was Owen, but in 1874 Mr. 

 Wright hunted the dog pack himself. Later 

 on he hunted both packs himself His pre- 

 decessor, Mr. Barton, who had married a 

 daughter of Sir John Ramsden, died in the 

 hunting field in the very act of blowing his 

 horn. The spot where he died, in the Bads- 



