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the old school, and wore a large hat of a peculiar make, 

 always a white choker, blue coat, and leather breeches 

 with long gaiters. He once fought a duel with Mr. Maberly, 

 who wrote an offensive letter to him about digging out a 

 fox. Extremely annoyed, the Colonel called him out, and 

 each fired his pistol ; but, happily, there was no bloodshed. 



One of the next Masters of the Old Surrey was 

 Mr. Daniel Haigh, who lived near Streatham. He was a 

 Yorkshireman, and, like many of his compatriots, always 

 retained a strong north-country accent. He was an 

 intimate friend of Mr. Maberly, both hunting together 

 with enthusiasm, and likewise extending their pleasures 

 in other directions not, perhaps, equally invigorating. 

 Mr. Haigh is reported to have been a man of infinite tact 

 and savoir /aire. A peculiarity of his was that he never 

 led anybody to think that he knew he killed foxes ; but 

 his only definite remark as to that point was, " I'll bet a 

 bottle of wine we shall find now." His wager was not 

 often accepted. He continued to hunt regularly until an 

 advanced age — nearly eighty. His picture was painted, 

 on his favourite hunter, Kitten, by Mr. Cooper, R.A., 

 and was presented to him by members of the hunt. He is 

 described as having been a lean, rather short man ; a light- 

 weight, who always rode with a thin, plain snaffle, and 

 made his men do the same ; at one time he had not a 

 curb-bridle in his stables. " I believe in hands," he used 

 to say, " not in ironmongery." A commentator of his 

 era thus writes of Mr. Haigh : — 



" He sat with ease in his saddle, being master of the 



