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liim and few to equal, notably in patience, perseverance,^ and 

 endurance. The Cattistock country is one which stands a lot of 

 hunting, which often extends from the middle of August into the 

 first days of May, and requires the keenest of sportsmen, such as 

 Milne, a veritable devotee of the chase. Many of those who in 

 later life become Masters of Hounds serve an apprenticeship with 

 beagles. In the case of the Masters of the Cattistock the T.F.B. 

 were a direct factor in the case, for when Rector of Shenley in 

 Bucks in the winter of '95 he heard they were wanting to find 

 quarters for the T.F.B. pack during the Christmas Vacation, so got 

 them over to Shenley, and hunted them there,- riding to them. 

 They had excellent sport, and the farmers took to the idea ; so the 

 same course was pursued the following winter, and this led to the 

 beginning of the North Bucks Harriers, of which Milne was Master 

 until 1900, when he took the Cattistock. 



When E. A. M. went down from Cambridge, several friends 

 subscribed to give him a -present in remembrance of the sport he 

 had shown, and the money he had spent on the Beagles, in the shape 

 of a gold watch, which he wears to this day. 



The foregoing tales have had the undesigned effect of bringing 

 together a number of ecclesiastics who love hunting and sport 

 generally, viz. the present Master of the Cattistock, Sir W. Hyde 

 Parker, who has also been a Eeverend Master, a College Dean and 

 Senior Proctor, and the compiler of these annals. Mr. Gunton, of 

 course, is dead, but there is among those who remain, and we are but 

 samples, evidence that the " sporting parson " is not quite so extinct 

 as some would suppose and very probably wash. The term " sporting 

 parson " is objectionable, of course, as even Jack Spraggon knew 

 the difference between the " sportsman " and the " sporting man," and 

 the term conjures up such ideas as that of Chaucer's degenerate Friar — 



^ There is an apocryphal distich to the effect that — 

 Patience and Perseverance 

 Made a Bishop of his Reverence. 



Is this prophetic of the present Master of the Cattistock ? — F. C. K. 



- I had a house at Leighton Buzzard tliat winter, and once more helped to turn 

 T.F.B. hounds to E. A. M.— W. Hyde Parker. 



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