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to him by his great friend Sir Richard Sutton, 

 and before the time of the present generation 

 was J. Smith, who was huntsman to Lord Port- 

 man's hounds from 1859 to 1893. Smith one 

 day had a curious experience in the hunting- 

 field. Lord Portman had given him a pocketful 

 of silver when he started in the morning, with 

 directions to settle a few poultry claims on his 

 way back to kennels. When Smith arrived at 

 the first cottage where a settlement was to be 

 made he found he had not a single shilling in 

 his pocket. Instantly connecting the loss of the 

 money with a fall he had had in the course of 

 the day, he described the spot where this had 

 happened to one of the whippers - in and de- 

 spatched him to look for it. Smith had been 

 thrown heavily on his head, and had got up 

 quite dazed from the blow. His memory of the 

 place where the fall had happened was so good, 

 however, that the messenger found the exact 

 spot at the fence, and from a dent in the 

 ground where Smith's head had landed in the 

 field he recovered the whole of the missing 

 silver. 



A horn that George Carter carried for many 

 years with the Fitzwilliam Hounds bears signs 

 of hard usage, and is, as the owner remarked 

 when he parted with it, " mended all over." 

 Another veteran of the field, and one who 

 whipped-in to Carter in the Tedworth country, 

 is Fred Cox, who for so many years was hunts- 



