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bought the pack from his predecessor, it was ahnost an unwritten 

 law that he would sell it to his successor and not take it away with 

 him when his term of office expired. The Master still owns the 

 hounds, but they are handed on from Master to Master without 

 payment, each being bound to hand on as many hounds as he 

 receives. There is still no committee and no formal guarantee. A 

 more constitutional system might in theory be better, but that which 

 we have works quite well ; and when no one man has been found 





The Foot Beagles of the later Sixties. 



ready to take the financial risks, the Mastership has been " in com- 

 mission." 



The unique feature of the period with which we now have to do 

 is that Currey was not an undergraduate but a " Don " — a Master of 

 Arts and Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Trinity. Though, as I have 

 said, unique, Currey's connection with the Beagles is really only 

 another example of the truth that all the sport that is enjoyed at 

 Cambridge springs out of home trainiog and traditions. Of those of 

 us who have such traditions, very few become Dons of any kind, and 



