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after an interval of seventeen years. It 

 would be impossible to find any better man 

 for the position than Colonel Yorke, a keen 

 sportsman, a lover of hounds, and, both in 

 and out of the Service, enjoying a personal 

 popularity that is as thoroughly well deserved 

 as it is useful to him as Master of the Drag. 



In the summer of 1879 dumb madness 

 broke out, and the whole pack had to be 

 destroyed. The following season a new pack 

 was formed by drafts from Lord Tredegar's, 

 the Cumberland, and one or two others, but 

 was again broken up on the death of the then 

 Master, Major Ward Ashton, in March 1880. 



Then comes an interval of about four years, 

 during which the kennels stood empty ; but 

 in 1883-4 another lot was got together, 

 and Major Hickman became Master. In the 

 following spring madness again destroyed 

 the pack. Captain Allsopp took over the 

 hounds from Major Hickman, and it was 

 during his term of office that, for the first 

 time, a regular uniform was adopted, and 

 the Master and whips now wear the colours 



