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walkers of the Blackmore Vale, as a mark of their 

 esteem, and as a token of their high appreciation 

 of Mr Guest's untiring efforts to show sport during 

 his mastership of the Blackmore Vale Hounds, 

 from 1884 to 1893." 



The scene was a very animated one as we all 

 stood in the court at the castle, the subscribers 

 who had arrived some time before having in the 

 meantime been entertained hospitably in the 

 dining-room. The speech in which the Master 

 expressed his appreciation of the honour done to 

 him and his wife was a very happy one. He 

 alluded feelingly to the agricultural depression 

 that was trying the farmers so severely, and while 

 wishing his friends a better time in the future, 

 he said that both he and Lady Theodora would 

 value their gift even more highly than they must 

 have done in any case, from the fact that Mr 

 Dampney had told them that the subscriptions to 

 it had been limited to a small sum in each case. 

 He spoke of his friendship for the late Mr John 

 Wingfield Digby, who nine years previously had 

 proposed that he should take the hounds when his 

 old friend Sir Eichard Glyn retired from office. 

 It was a source of great gratification to him that 

 Mr Digby's son should offer him a token which 

 told him that he had fulfilled the trust his father 

 had reposed in him. Mr Guest said that the good 

 feeling existing among all classes in the hunt, of 

 which their meeting that morning was a sign, was 

 at once a source of joy to himself personally and 



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