SIR WALTER PALK CAREW, BART. 47 



The journal develops into a hunting journal proper 

 (with an occasional intervening summary of game 

 killed to the gun) in the year 1827. The first two 

 seasons deal with John King's mastership and have 

 already been referred to. 



The entries in the journal are very concise, often 

 laconic. They were evidently entered in a batch 

 periodically from notes made after each day's sport, 

 probably weekly, since in one case we find the entry : 



" I have mislaid the account for the week be- 

 ginning Dec. 5th." The journal bears evidence of 

 scrupulous exactness. 



John Beal was huntsman. He remained with Sir 

 Walter all the time he kept the pack and accom- 

 panied the hounds when they went into the Tiverton 

 country after Sir Walter retired. Sir Henry Scale's 

 letters shew that Beal was a good huntsman and 

 rarely away from his hounds when running. He 

 was also a trustworthy servant. " I have appointed 

 Beal," Sir Henry wrote in December, 1842, " pre- 

 sident and toastmaster to preside over some roast 

 beef and two bowls of punch to drink all our good 

 healths Xmas Day, and Kitson is to say grace, 

 with old Rendal (I mean the one who is partial to 

 tobacco) to say ' Amen.' " " Beal " he says in 

 another letter " has ' hopes in view ' " (a favourite 

 expression of the old huntsman's) " of a good day's 

 sport to-morrow." 



Of Beal as a huntsman. Colonel Anstruther Thom- 

 son, writing of the Tiverton hounds in the year 1845, 

 says : 



" John Beal was the huntsman ; he had no 

 whipper-in. The hounds were taken to the meet in 

 couples, for one day they met (sic), a dead horse 

 and stopped and ate him up. John Beal was a real 



