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and highly-trained retriever, which he thought he would keep at 

 the Kennels. His face was a study on one occasion, when, on 

 entering the Kennel yard, we found " Bob " killing rats with it in 

 the manure bin. G. B. resides in Essex, and is a well-known man 

 with the Essex Hounds, and used often to act as Field Master in 

 Mr. Green's Mastership. 



" Jack Milne " also enlarged the area over which hounds hunted, 

 and was the first to obtain for them permission to hunt Chatteris 

 Een — an excellent piece of country. He had great prudence and 

 tact for a youngster in persuading objectors, e.g. a certain Mr. 

 Caldwell of Impingten (if memory serves right as regards names) 

 was a very hard nut to crack, but taking W. H. Parker with him, 

 he went and bearded him in his den, and with great patience won 

 the day, after a very bad five minutes to begin with, and afterwards 

 Mr. C. thought all the world of him. 



Milne continued Master the following season — '84-'85 — and "VV. 

 Hyde Parker continued with him, but Buxton and Drury having 

 gone down, their places were taken by C. F. Young and W. Heber- 

 Percy. Charlie Young added weight to the Committee, whatever 

 else he may have done, and Heber-Percy ^ was a wonderful jumper, 

 and won shillings and half-crowns frequently by getting out of the 

 " Committee Cart," and jumping fences out of the road, which 

 looked unjumpable on foot. In this season the hounds improved 

 much, the cream consisting of Fairmaid, Buby, Wilful, Viscount, 

 Beauty, Boreatton, Lapwing, Lustrous, Warwick, Ghostly, Buttercup, 

 Fidget, Harkaway, Dexter, Eansom, Vandex, and Chanter. 



I don't suppose there ever were much keener Masters than 

 " Mother " Hunt and " Jack " Milne, nor have the twenty-seven 

 years which have elapsed made any difference to the keenness of 

 the latter, though the former doesn't any longer pursue. 



Milne had a lot of young hounds to enter his second season, and 

 said we must be at it by daybreak, meeting at Granchester; Mr. 

 Lilly, who lived there then, being a great supporter. This meant 

 breaking " our gates," and it took a lot of explanation to make the 



^ A. W. Heber-Percy married a daughter of Lord Portman's, and acts frequently 

 as field-master of Lord P.'s hounds. 



