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away from the plantations near Beck, and the twenty 

 couple divided to a hound, one fox taking a ring to 

 the right, and the other to the left, and both died 

 honourably within a few yards of each other, close by 

 where they were found. Unlike Captain Macheath, 

 he was enabled in the same year to be happy with 

 both his charmers ; as the hounds found a brace at 

 Leadenham Park, came away with them in two 

 bodies, ran parallel, and killed them both, almost to a 

 moment, and within a hundred yards of each other, 

 near the Newark road. 



G d 11 ^^^^ Goodall's early career began at the 

 late Mr. Drake's, where his father still 

 lives ; and many and long were the hours he waited 

 outside the House of Commons during the Reform 

 Debates of 1832, when his master was member for 

 Amersham, and the grooms had no covered shed. 

 What stories he could tell of how Ben Foote rated 

 him for stealing away with hounds, and having his 

 first run when he was merely stationed to watch if the 

 fox came out in a rushy corner ; and how Griff Lloyd 

 always forgot to pay him the half-crown he agreed on, 

 for carrying him bodily over a brook. He broke in 

 Flounce and Fop, that celebrated brother and sister, 

 for Mr. Tom Drake, for whom he first acted as cover- 

 boy ; and after serving four years under Goosey as 

 second whip, he was made the Belvoir huntsman on 

 Tom's resignation in '42. Tom Flint was but too 

 conscious of his one sad failing ; and he and Will 

 were such good friends, that he would have cheerfully 

 stopped and whipped in to him, if the Duke had seen 

 fit. Up to that point, the Belvoir hound standard had 

 been twenty-four, but Will reduced it an inch. 

 Crack Belvoir Jasper, brother to Juniper who went 

 Hounds. back to Mr. Compton's blood ; Topper, 

 whom Mr. Shawe brought with him from Sir Thomas 

 Mostyn's, and Saladin, the sire of Furrier, were deemed 

 by Goosey among the fathers of the pack. He also 



