64 THE TEINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



Kecokds of the " Foot Beagles " preserved by 

 Lord Ernest St. Maur, Trinity Hall 



Burton Hall, Loughborough, Jan. 1911. 



So7ne account of the Foot Beagles at Cambridge, collected from 

 my Diary, 1869-70. 



Having hunted a pack of fourteen-inch foot beagles while at a 

 Private Tutor's in Wiltshire, between the time of leaving Harrow 

 and entering at Trinity Hall, it was only natural that I should 

 become a follower of the pack known as the (Trinity) Foot Beagles, 

 then belonging to " Pat " Currey (W. E. Currey, M.A., Assistant Tutor 

 of Trinity College, 4th Classic 1863, a Fellow 1865, and one of 

 H.M. Inspectors of Schools sul)sequently). " Pat " Currey, as he was 

 called by his friends, was a strongly built, line-looking man, with a 

 beard, and good features, about 5 ft. 11 in., as far as I can recall him 

 to my mind, as I never saw him after leaving Cambridge. During 

 the vacation he took the pack of beagles over to Ireland, his father 

 living at Lismore Castle, as agent for the Duke of Devonshire. 

 Currey had been at Mr. Pvendall's, of Harrow, before coming up to 

 Cambridge. 



It was on Feb. 16, 1869, that I first went out with the "Foot 

 Beagles." I have some of the cards of the meets still, and I notice 

 that was the name of the pack in those days. There was no uniform 



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From T.PM3.C. Hook. 



for Huntsman or Whips, and the hounds were then kennelled at the 

 Merton Arms Inn, then on the outskirts of the town. The pack con- 

 sisted of about 18 couple of hounds, average height about 15 inches, 

 or rather more ; they had a good deal of colour, about three or four 

 couple being black and tan. The first day I was out a farmer 



