2i6 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



his hounds came to a check. The squire shook his head, 

 and said, ' I am sorry for you, Treadwell, that your son 

 ' Charles should act in such a manner ; he is a foolish 

 ' young man.' 'He is, squire,' replied old Treadwell. Then 

 came another check, and a wilder cast than ever. ' Tread- 

 ' well,' said the squire, 'your son Charles is a fool.' 'Yes, 

 'squire, he is a born fool,' replied the old man. Anon came 

 another check, and after a mad cast forward, the fox, who 

 had slipped back, was lost. The squire approached his old 

 huntsman with a look of commiseration on his countenance, 

 and said, ' I am sorry to have to say it, Treadwell, but your 



'son Charles is a d d fool' 'You are quite right, squire,' 



replied the old huntsman, disgusted at the display his son 



had made, 'he is a d d fool' 



So spake these old veterans of Charles Treadwell in his 

 first season as a huntsman ; but he soon grew to be a past 

 master in his profession, and his moderate start only served 

 to accentuate his future success. He continued to hunt 

 under Mr. Horlock for a few seasons, and then he went to 

 the Ouorn, under the mastership of Lord Suffield. After 

 he had been here one season. Lord Suffield sold his hounds 

 to Mr. Robertson, of Lady Kirk. It will be remembered 

 that this was the pack which the great Ralph Lambton had 

 made famous, and which could not take kindly to the ways 

 of a Leicestershire field, and sold to Lord Suffield. But 

 in their new country they did well, and it was with them 

 that Treadwell first came prominently before the world as 

 a skilful huntsman. For six seasons he and his pack made 

 the lives of the Berwickshire foxes a burthen to them during 

 one half of the year, and then Mr. Robertson retired, and 

 Treadwell went to Lord Harewood. For six seasons he 

 hunted the hounds for Lord Harewood, and then he went 

 on to Bramham when Mr. George Lane Fox succeeded to 

 the mastership. During the twenty-three years in which he 



