THE ANCIEN REGIME 



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Hoppet's reign lasted well into the nineties, and I have preserved 

 a back view caricature of him, drawn by myself, which appeared in 

 the Granta somewhere about that time, and here redrawn. 



' GENTLKMAN " HOPPET. 



Here follow two letters which do not give much information, but 

 rather tend to make the history of the pack obscure. However, 

 they help out on various details, and here they are : — 



Letter from Viscount Ebringtox 



Bydowx, nr. Barnstaple, 

 February 26, 1895. 



Dear Sir — I was never master of the T.F.B. When I went 

 up in October 1872 the Master was H. C. Howard, since Master of 



