62 THE TKINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



In an interview with Dr. Jackson I saw one of Carrey's water- 

 colours, which was amateur work of the best kind. I also learned 

 that, when Currey was inspecting schools somewhere in the Shires, 

 he made many of his journeys on horseback, and sometimes was 

 able to coml)ine the inspection of a school and a day with the 

 hounds. 



Mr. Charles E. G. Hoare, of Xewlands, Hatfield, helps us out with 

 some records of Currey 's hunting : — 



"In 1867 Mr. W. E. Currey, of Lismore Castle, Ireland, then a 

 young Don at Trinity, now I am afraid dead, brought his pack over 

 from Ireland. I am afraid I can give little information as to the 

 hounds. These were certainly larger than those I had been used to 

 run with — Mr. Tanqueray's, of Heudon, which he got from Mr. 

 Honeywood, of Mark's Hall, Coggeshall, and are the subject of a 

 well-known print, 'The Merry Beaglers,' in which the Messrs. 

 Honeywood and a friend, Mr. Phellips, are depicted — and I should 

 say smaller than the Trinity Beagles when I saw them some years 

 ago. They would not, I fancy, be much thought of in these days of 

 Hound Shows, but they were a useful, hard-working lot of little 

 hounds, and Currey left them a great deal to themselves. He used 

 to ride an extraordinarily clever cob of about 14-2 or 3, a marvel over 

 fen ditches or anything else. Mr. Currey was a very kind and 

 genial Irishman, a good horseman, and, I should say, a very good 

 hare hunter, and I never remember him taking advantage of his 

 field, who were toiling on foot." 



Scholar, sportsman, artist, humorist, good comrade, and, of 

 course, gentleman, I do not think any of those who belong to the 

 historically obscure Foot Drag days can feel unfairly passed over if 

 we treat their times as tentative and experimental, and, especially 

 as there was an interregnum, grant to Currey the title of Founder. 

 His position, as I have said, is unique, and that will be our best 

 method of expressing the fact. Professor Jackson, moreover, though 

 he disclaims all knowledge of sport, tells us more of our Founder as 

 a sportsman than he himself realises. An Assistant Tutor who takes 

 his duties seriously has, as is clearly shown, plenty of work to do, 

 and Currey had his literary and artistic hobbies as well ; and that in 



