242 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



of a more usual shape that belonged to the 

 eighth Duke of Beaufort, and with it is one 

 used by Will Dale, a huntsman who has left 

 his mark in the Brocklesby kennels, where he 

 served under the present Earl of Yarborough 

 from the year 1884 to 1896. In the latter year, 

 when the Brocklesby dog pack was sold, Dale 

 went to the Beaufort country, where Mr Wemyss 

 was that season acting as joint Master with the 

 then Marquis of Worcester. Dale began his 

 hunting career by whipping-in to his father, who 

 was at that time huntsman to the Surrey Union, 

 and whose horn used by him in that country 

 and another used earlier with the Vine Hounds 

 are with that of his son. 



Another horn has a distinction of its own in 

 that it belonged to a woman who came forward 

 in a moment of emergency and saved the Brock- 

 lesby Hunt from disaster. Victoria, Countess of 

 Yarborough, not only took the management of 

 the Brocklesby Hunt country after the death of 

 her husband, the third Earl, in 1875, during the 

 minority of her son, but she succeeded in that 

 most difficult part of a Master's duties, keeping 

 the field in order without losing her popularity. 

 Lady Yarborough was assisted in her duties by 

 Mr J. Maunsell Bichardson, whom she married 

 in 1881, who twice rode the winner of the Grand 

 National. She was a very fine horsewoman and 

 able to take her own line over a country. 



The horns of Mr Fenwick Bisset and Arthur 



