DragJiounds 95 



zine, and which, by the kindness of the 

 Editor, I am permitted to reprint here — the 

 Royal Artillery draghounds will be found 

 fully dealt with. 



It is nearly a quarter of a century since 

 Mr. Thacker, the senior veterinary surgeon 

 at Woolwich, and one of the finest horsemen 

 that ever rode " between the flags," conceived 

 the idea of starting a pack of draghounds. 

 Mr. Thacker, who was formerly in the loth 

 Hussars, was a small, spare man, his face 

 badly scarred from the contests he had had, 

 and the falls sustained when riding young 

 and vicious horses. Nearly every bone in 

 his body had been broken at one time or 

 another, but his nerve was of iron, and he 

 was " hard " to the backbone. After one 

 season, he handed over the Mastership to 

 Captain (now Colonel) Lynes, R.H.A., who 

 had then just returned from Canada, and a 

 better man could hardly have been chosen. 

 On being appealed to, the neighbouring 

 farmers and landowners met the newly- 

 formed hunt in a thoroughly sportsmanlike 



