240 THE TEINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



Amongst hovinds that I remember at this period were : Gracious, 

 Eector, Marquis, Trumpeter, Eorman, Firelight, Fretful, Friendly, 

 Eacquet, Earity (all tan), Lawless, Garnish, Garston, Victory, Gambler, 

 of which Trumpeter, Eacquet, and Lawless strike me now as having 

 been the best in the field. Trumpeter was a bit wild, but I think I 

 never saw such a " glutton for work " among any kind of pack I have 

 ever hunted with. Forman was not at this time, in my humble 

 opinion, as good as he looked (I think he was the finest-looking 

 beagle dog hound I have ever seen), as he was rather apt not to 

 " throw liis tongue " sufficiently. 



I remember him once leading the whole pack off after a cur dog 

 when Paget and I were exercising down the Backs on bicycles during 

 the May week, and I could not stop them till we lost our cur (which 

 in the course of the hunt had turned up Silver Street, and then 

 doubled back !) through his bounding over an unjumpable (to beagles) 

 garden gate. 



These proceedings were a source of great surprise to Hazlerigg, 

 who happened to view the chase roll by ! Among the followers of the 

 T.F.B. whom I recollect were : Arthur M. Luckock (" squint eye " !), 

 Mapplebeck, John Dormer (also a fox-hunter from the Cleveland 

 country), H. D. Bentinck (afterwards a whipper-in), M'Intyre (a 

 keeper of whippets !), Eobin Barclay (a running Blue and some time 

 Whip), Graves, Montgomery ("Gaunt"!), Tommy Eussell (whipper-in), 

 Stanning, Harry Longman (Whip), S. S. Steel (who once told a private 

 detective that he was " John Jones, of Jesus," and was also a well- 

 known follower of Mr. Scott-Plummer's hounds in Selkirkshire), 

 Edwards, Williams, J. C. Newman, Lord O'Hagan, Harry Fordham, 

 Tony Buxton (afterwards Master), Van. Duzer, Walter Eothschild, 

 A. W. T. Channell [also a good sailor-man. — F. C. K.], David Hoare, 

 and C. Hoare. David Hoare was the greatest celebrity, having 

 started his hunting career when still at Harrow, where he, his 

 brother (who went into the Indian Army), and another boy combined 

 to keep a cry of four couples of beagles on the quiet, with which they 

 used to hunt a drag, as hares were too scarce in the neighbourhood 

 of the farm where the pack was kennelled (in a pig-sty !) and there 

 was seldom time to go very far afield. David at Harrow was called 



