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though they had offered to do so in previous years, the Committee 

 could not see their way to doing it then. So the only tiling 

 was to use Stud Book sires, which I am glad to see has been since 

 done.i 



[Here follow convivial particulars dealt with in the next 

 chapter.] 



I doubt if there will be any tiling of any use in this rigmarole, and 

 I can only excuse its length on the ground of the great interest 

 I have always taken in T.F.B. — Yours very truly, 



(Signed) W. Edmund Paget. 



I am sure there is no reason to apologise for so interesting a 

 " rigmarole," giving the family history of so many members of the 

 pack. It fits in moreover with 



Me. Godfrey Lawson's Eeminiscences 



My first season was 1899-1900, when the Master was C. B. Kidd 

 — now Master of West Kent F.H. — and Whippers-in, H. C. Wood 

 and P. H. Cooper, now a clergyman. 



Kidd was a very persevering if not a fast runner, and quite a 

 fair huntsman, while both Wood and Cooper were excellent runners 

 and whippers-in. Cooper used to have a beagling maxim of: 

 " First cook your hare and then catch it ! " 



The next season, 1900-1901, W. E. Paget, well known with the 

 Quorn E.H.— his father once having been joint M.F.H. — took on 

 the hounds, with F. D. Finch as 1st and Arthur W. Ehymer- 

 Eoberts as 2nd Whippers-in. (Ehymer-Eoberts had the sobriquet 

 of " Poetic Bobs.") Paget was quite a first-rate huntsman. As 

 regards running, he was a remarkably " game " plodder, seeing he 

 had a chronic " game leg," which was due to an accident with the 

 Quorn. 



I remember the first time I saw him was in the summer term 

 1900, before he was Master, when he was driving the Pelican cricket 

 team to a match in a brake, and as he had rather a disreputable 

 cap on, I took him for one of Hopkins's stablemen ! As a rule, how- 



1 Cf. entry in " Farmers' Book " by D. G. Hoare. 



