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ing his knowledge of all the details of the fascinating 

 sport of coaching, gives a delightful glimpse of life 

 on the road. 



Haworth's whipper-in, Tom Clark, afterwards 

 became huntsman to the Craven, under Mr. Ville- 

 bois, and, later, for five years to the Old Berkshire, 

 under Mr. Morrell. Then, when the famous Tubney 

 pack was broken up and the eighth Duke of Beaufort 

 bought eight couple for four hundred guineas, Clark 

 went with them to Badminton and remained as 

 huntsman to the Duke for ten years, often hunting 

 hounds six days a week. He had the character of 

 being too keen upon blood. I confess I never knew 

 a huntsman who was otherwise ; it is the business of 

 the M.F.H. to restrain this bloodthirstiness within 

 due limits. Of Clark the Duke of Beaufort said ; 

 *' Clark was a first-rate man in the kennel and good in 

 the field. But he was, perhaps, a trifle too anxious 

 to get away for a gallop. Nor was he very thorough 

 in drawing his coverts, and not seldom drew over his 

 fox. He was proverbially a bad finder of foxes. Once 

 in the open, he was, however, in his element ; he 

 loved to shew his field a gallop, and could be with his 

 hounds when they ran."^ Further mention of Clark 

 is made in the Hunting Volume of the Badminton 

 Library. 



Clark retired in 1868 and took an inn at Chipping 

 Sodbury. 



' The Eighth Duke of Beaufort and the Badminton Hunt, by T. F. Dale. 



