CHAPTER IV 



THE MASTER — CONCLUDED 





N dealing with this scribblement, 

 we have treated our " Master " 

 more as a Master than as one 

 of those "rare birds," a Master 

 and huntsman combined. 

 True it is, that in our specifi- 

 cation of requirements we 

 lumped the offices, but that 

 was done to show what a 

 '' monster of perfection " a 

 gentleman-huntsman ought to 

 Dis-Siamese the characters, and we have enough in that 

 of "Master" for all ordinary capacities. Doubtless, in our 

 long life, we have seen many eminent men in duplicate — Dar- 

 lington, Ducie, Foljambe, Lambton, Musters, Graham, Gifford, 

 Sutton, Osbaldeston, Elcho, Nichol, Kintore, Newman, 

 Templer, Tatchel, and, though last not least, those mighty fox 

 foes, who have shed renown on the somewhat common name of 

 Smith ; but placing the question on its own comprehensive 

 stern, we are very much of the opinion of Beckford, who says, 

 that it is an undertaking which, in a general way, had better 

 be " let alone." 



" It is your opinion, I find," writes Mr. Beckford, and we 



be 



