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Treadwel], carried the horn for many years, and was with 

 the second Lord Harewood up to the time of that noble- 

 man's untimely death. He was a good horseman, and an 

 indefatigable and persevering' huntsman in the field, and a 

 rare hand at killing his foxes, though as a scientific hound- 

 breeder he does not bear a great name. He was as keen 

 as the second Lord Harewood, which is saying a great deal, 

 and no day was too long for him. He had implicit con- 

 fidence in his hounds, and once made a bet that they would 

 kill forty brace of foxes before Christmas, and the season 

 luckily remaining open, he was enabled to win his bet. 

 After the death of Lord Harewood he retired, and was 

 succeeded by Charles Treadwell. 



Treadwell was the son of a man who had made for 

 himself a great name as a huntsman in the difficult country 

 presided over so long by Mr. Farquharson. For his father 

 he acted as whipper-in, and on the retirement of the squire 

 and old Jem Treadwell, he hunted the South Wiltshire. 

 Like many as aspirant to fame he found that hunting a 

 pack of foxhounds was not quite such an easy task as it 

 looked ; and a story is told of him which would-be huntsmen 

 may well lay to heart. The squire and old Jem retired at 

 the same time, and when relieved from the cares of office, 

 and in a position of greater freedom than responsibility, they 

 were wont to go out on their cobs, and criticise the proceedings 

 confidentially. Instead of being the criticised, they became 

 the critics. No doubt the younger bloods had thought old 

 Jem slow, and perhaps he had lost the dash of his youth. 

 So they would, as is the manner of the impatient, talk freely 

 to the coming man of getting on, &c. On one occasion, 

 Mr. Farquharson and old Jem went to see the South 

 Wiltshire. There was a very bad scent, and Charles, in a 

 hurry to kill his fox, and pressed by the hot spirits, 

 impatient as usual, made one or two very wild casts when 



