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Of old Goosey, another celebrated huntsman of 

 the Belvoir, many tales are told. He was fond of 

 long words, and once when Lord Forester, who was 

 then acting as Master, asked him about a fall 

 Goosey had had the previous day, the old man 

 replied, " Well, my Lord, I was going along quite 

 collectively, and the horse came down promiscuous, 

 and I was bamboozled." The late Duke of Butland 

 was very fond of telling this story, and he would 

 also tell another, which seems to show that Goosey 

 took the ills of life with as much philosophy as old 

 Press. In a letter to Lord Forester Goosey says : 

 " My Lord, will you please allow me not to go out 

 to-morrow ? I am going to bury my wife, and on 

 so dull an occasion I thought your lordship would 

 let me off." 



Of Mr K Chandos Pole, Master of the Meynell 

 and later of the Cattistock Hunt, I have already 

 spoken. In the ' Meynell Hunt Alphabet ' a 

 tribute is paid to his riding, which he certainly 

 deserved in his Dorset country : — 



" P is for Pole too ; though welter his weight, 

 He's a beautiful horseman and always goes straight." 



A story of a different sort is told of Mr J. Cod- 

 rington, an earlier Master of the Cattistock, who 

 was said never to jump a stick. He, too, was a 

 heavy weight, and a friend, when congratulating 

 the Master upon having bought a very good 

 hunter, wound up the enumerations of the horse's 

 merits by saying he was a perfect fencer. At last 



