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eldest son generations back before those above- 

 mentioned. The present master was his father's 

 second son. His eldest brother, John, died in the 

 year 1836, of scarlatina. Against all advice he would 

 go hunting with the scarlatina on him, and it proved 

 fatal. As the present master is always called Tom. 

 so his father went by the familiar name of Jack 

 Beamish : this was the old style of the country. Such 

 were the masters ; men, true and real sportsmen. 



The huntsmen, of whom a record can be traced, 

 are three — John, or as he too was called, Jack Bouig, 

 and his son Patrick, or Paddy Bouig ; and Denis 

 Driscoll, whose sobriquet was " Dindy." How long 

 the two former acted as huntsmen cannot be exactly 

 ascertained, but it must have been for a very long 

 time. The latter was within the writer's own recol- 

 lection, and hunted the hounds for a period of between 

 forty and fifty years. The writer's own personal recol- 

 lection of the pack extends to that length of time, and 

 having seen many huntsmen in the field, he can safely 

 say that a better huntsman of his class than " Dindy" 

 never followed a hound or carried a horn. He was 

 equally good at running a fox hard and straight, or 

 tracking the mazy windings of a hare, and always 

 with his hounds. He acted as huntsman for years 

 after the death of the late master, In 1848, until 

 growing rather old for the business, his family emi- 

 grated, and took him with them to America. No 

 other huntsman was then engaged, and for some time 

 the hounds were hunted by the present master, occa- 

 sionally assisted by a friend, until the present hunts- 

 man, his son — Mr. John Beamish — grew up to man's 

 estate, and was able to take his father's place. Up 



