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suddenly he uttered an expression of horror, and visible 

 concern overspread his countenance. The ladies present, 

 supposing some great European calamity had occurred, 

 hastily asked him what was the matter, when he replied, 

 looking over his spectacles, " By Jove, a dog fox has been 

 burnt to death in a barn ! " 



The country which he found so bare of foxes he has left 

 most amply stocked. When no longer able to hunt his 

 hounds himself, he curtailed his hunting days, and pre- 

 sented twenty couple of first-rate hounds to the Craven, 

 a neighbouring pack. For the last two years of his life, 

 the hounds may be said to have been kept entirely for the 

 amusement of his friends, for although he did go out occa- 

 sionally in 1856, subsequently to his first severe illness, it 

 was rather as a spectator than a master of hounds. At the 

 time of his decease, there were ninety couple of hounds in 

 his kennel, fifty more at walk in Wales, and thirty in 

 Wilts. They used to come up in a caravan by railway to 

 Andover. When Carter first entered Mr. Smith's service, 

 so great was the number of hounds in the kennel, that 

 much nicety of judgment and discrimination was requisite ; 

 for it was no easy matter to decide which hound to choose 

 and which to reject, where every one was valuable. The 

 two veterans (for neither master nor man was at that 

 period exactly in the bloom of youth) succeeded by their 

 united skill in kennel discipline, in forming a pack of fox- 

 hounds which have been unrivalled in the world. 



Mr. Horlock,* himself an eminent sportsman and first- 

 rate judge of hounds, thus comments on the Ted worth 

 pack. " For a draft of young hounds, I think I should 

 select the pack of the wonderful squire of Tedworth, for 

 several reasons. First, he has some good old blood, having 

 bought the Duke of Grafton's hounds, and before that, be 



* Mr. Horlock hunted that part of Wilts which adjoins the duke <rf 

 Seaufort's country, and also part of Somerset. 



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