BRAMHAM MOOR HUNTSMEN. 



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carried the horn he showed excellent sport, and he also did 

 much to bring- the pack to that state of perfection which it 

 has ever since maintained. 



A heavy man, Treadwell always managed to be with his 

 hounds, and Mr. Fox never found him an expensive man to 

 mount ; and though he was a man who would ride up to 

 his hounds, he never rode jealous, nor, to use the words of 

 his biographer in ' Baily,' tried to ' cut down the cornets.' 

 He did not like hounds to have much cry, and was wont 

 to say that he hated a hound that spoke twice where once 

 would do. The consequence was that he got his hounds 

 very light tongued, which is scarcely an unqualified advantage 

 in a woodland country. He was quick and rather cheery 

 with his hounds, and on a bad-scenting day, when hounds 

 could just own a line after getting through a fence, he would 

 carry them on to the next without hesitation. Nor was his 

 confidence ever misplaced, as the fine record of sport which 

 he showed during the twenty-three years he hunted the 

 Bramham Moor country amply proves, and in ' Daily's 

 Magazine' he is fittingly spoken of as 'that truly great man 

 ' in his profession.' 



On Treadwell's death, in June, 1865, Mr. Fox engaged 

 Stephen Goodall, who had been fourteen years in Ireland, 

 where, at the time Mr. Fox engaged him, he was hunting 

 the Duhallows for Lord Doneraile. Goodall showed good 

 sport in his way, and was energetic and persevering, but his 

 way was not the way of the squire of Bramham. In the 

 kennel he was a good man, as indeed what Goodall is not ? 

 and he was, like most of his family, a fine horseman. But 

 he was one of the flash school of huntsmen, who thought 

 he could catch his fo.x himself, and who was constantly 

 galloping in the contrary direction to that in which his fox 

 had gone in his endeavour to do so. To do him justice 

 he killed a fair number of foxes, and gave his field plenty 



