168 REMINISCENCES, ETC. 



Carter tlien lived. He and four other young fellows started 

 on foot on the slot of a buck, and determined to take him. 

 They first came up with him in a slough half full of water, 

 out of which he bolted, and took flight pretty straight 

 across the country, with his pursuers at a respectful 

 distance. On, however, they went, seldom viewing him, 

 but never losing his track. Carter at last became the 

 "leading hound," and marked him up to some pales, along 

 which was a deep wet ditch, tangled with briars and rushes. 

 Carter saw by his track that he had hesitated to jump the 

 pales, and had gone down the ditch to the right and then 

 to the left. This satisfied him that the buck was some- 

 where *• harboured ; " and, looking very closely, he at last 

 espied his nose and eyes just peering out of the water. 

 Without waiting for " hound No. 2," who was just coming 

 up, in he went, and a fearful struggle took place. Carter 

 clinging to him as if wrestling ; and at last, with the assist- 

 ance of the rest of the party, they secured him, and walked 

 him back in triumph among them to the Park, whence 

 they had started in the morning, after an animated chase of 

 nearly twenty miles. 



George used to say a good thing sometimes in a quaint, 

 quiet sort of way. A certain nobleman in the Ted worth 

 Hunt, a good friend to foxes, was sometimes so excited, as 

 to ride too near, and press hounds. One day when the 

 venandi immensa cupido was very strong upon him, he rode 

 too close to them at a check, when Carter thus imparted 

 his ideas to a friend who rode beside him : " I heartily 

 pray that the day may come when his Lordship may hunt a 

 pack of hounds of his own ; and have another Lord, just 

 exactly like himself, as one of his field." 



Carter's religious faith, and fidelity to his old master, 

 were strongly but very quaintly exemplified in the following 

 manner. After Mr. Smith's death, when it was generally 

 expected at Tedworth that he would be buried in the 

 Mausoleum, George sought an interview with an old 



