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which he had bought in for 490 guineas, the irritation 

 was scarcely allayed. The horses are said to have 

 realised thrice the money they would have brought had 

 they been sold at Hyde Park Corner, the total being 

 1000 guineas, which, considering the amount of work 

 they had performed, and that they had had no rest, must 

 be considered as a very good return. The best were 

 bought by Mr. Greene and Mr. Swan, of York, on 

 behalf of the York and Ainsty Hunt ; while among 

 the masters of hounds present were Lord Ducie, the 

 Marquis of Waterford, Mr. Applethwaite, Tom Smith 

 of the Pytchley, and the master of the York and Ainsty. 



In 1878 there was exhibited at the galleries of 

 Messrs. Dickenson and Foster, New Bond Street, Lon- 

 don, a collection of pictures entitled " Two Centuries of 

 Hunting," among the collection being a portrait of Mr. 

 Tom Hodgson. 



The subscription list, too, is said to have been rather 

 a sore point with the retiring master, considering the 

 number of people who came out with the hounds. It is 

 believed that he received something like ^3000, which 

 was more than was given to Lord Southampton, yet not 

 so much as was received by Sir Bellingham Graham. It 

 was estimated that no man could at that time hunt the 

 Quorn country under ^4000 a year, while many of 

 the previous masters, who went in for something like 

 show, had to spend a good deal more than that. 



The year 1863 saw the death of three veteran sports- 

 men in Yorkshire, viz., Sir Tatton Sykes, Mr. Gully, 

 and Mr. Hodgson, at the respective ages of eighty, 

 ninety, and seventy. Mr. Hodgson himself became 

 master of the Badsworth Hunt at the age of twenty- 

 four, when Sir Bellingham Graham resigned, and found, 

 as he expressed it, "twelve couples of hounds and three 

 horses as a nest-egg." After three seasons with the 

 Badsworth, he became master of the Holderness for 



