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man to Lord Rothschild's staghounds, and was 

 perhaps the best huntsman of the carted deer 

 ever known. With the farmers in the Vale of 

 Aylesbury Cox was always on the best of terms, 

 and he received several testimonials from them. 

 One of these was a horn which they gave him 

 in 1879, together with a purse containing 134 

 sovereigns. Cox was another of those who be- 

 lieved in hound-shows, for he said that " they 

 encourage huntsmen to breed for shape and quality, 

 and a hound is as much better for being true 

 made and well looking as is a horse." On a 

 favourite horse named Gay Lad, Cox once cleared 

 thirty feet over the Wing Brook, a place that is 

 still pointed out in the Vale as the scene of the 

 exploit. 



The horns of two Masters who hunted over 

 parts of Somerset and Dorset are near together. 

 One of them belonged to Mr Churchill Langdon, 

 who hunted the Seavington Harriers for some 

 years and showed capital sport. I remember 

 once being much amused with a very good speech 

 Mr Langdon made after the luncheon at one of 

 the B.V.H. puppy-shows. He had, he said, been 

 struck with the knowledge of hounds shown by 

 Lady Theodora Guest, for his experience was that 

 ladies found it very difficult to distinguish one 

 hound from another. That failing at least had 

 been exemplified in his own family, though in 

 the most charming manner. In his harrier pack 

 he had one hound that was a black-and-tan, and 



