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parative comfort, and they met with a generous response ; 

 but his wife died at an advanced age in the workhouse, 

 some years after her husband's decease. 



In the November of 1862 it was quite well under- 

 stood that Lord Stamford would vacate the Ouorn 

 country at the end of the season, and it was said that 

 John Treadwell would remain on as huntsman with Lord 

 Stamford's successor ; but this rumour proved to be un- 

 true, as when Lord Stamford finally gave up the Quorn 

 country Treadwell left and took service under his old 

 master, Mr. Henley Greaves, who was then hunting the 

 old Berkshire country ; and there he remained from 1863 

 until 1882, when he resigned, having hunted under seve- 

 ral masters, including the Messrs. Charles and Thomas 

 Duffield, and Lord Craven. Treadwell died in 1895, 

 and was buried at Kingston Bagpuze, Berkshire, in a 

 grave not far from that of his old master, Mr. Thomas 

 Duffield, under whom he worked for about nine seasons. 

 At every Hunt dinner in the old Berkshire country, one 

 or other of the speakers paid a tribute of praise to 

 Treadwell's skill as a huntsman, and expressed himself 

 grateful for the sport shown. In 1878 he was presented 

 with a silver teapot, a hunting watch, and a purse of 600 

 guineas. At the time of his death he was seventy-three 

 years of age. 



As Lord Stamford's last season drew to a close 

 some very fair sport was enjoyed. During the month 

 of March 1863 a goodly number of afternoon runs took 

 place, and about the middle of the month they had a 

 very fast thing from Lord Aylesford's covert down to 

 the river below Hoby. They crossed the water close 

 to the spot where on a former occasion Lords Gardner 

 and Brudenell swam their horses across. On this occa- 

 sion no one attempted the passage by water, so by 

 common assent the whole of the large field galloped up 

 towards the Old Mill to a footbridge. It appeared, as 



