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R E M I N I SC E N C E S

COLONEL ANST RUT HER—T HOMSON

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J.A.T . ON I R I S . PYTCHLEY , 1 870 . F rom a

P ainting by Sir F rancis Grant“

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THE REV . JACK RUS SELL 83

CLEMENT INA'

ADAM,WIFE OF JO HN AN

STRUTHER THOM SON OF CHARLETON

(MY MOTHER). F rom a M iniature at

Charleton

LORD WORCE ST ER ON“ BE CKFORD

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F rom a P ainting by Wheeler

WITH THE DUKE OF PORTLAND—PERTH TOLANGWELL

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COLONEL , F IFE AND FORFAR L IGHT HORS E ,1 89 1 . F rom a P hotograph by G . B .

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J. AN STRUTHER THOM SON,

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CHAPTER I.

THE PYTCHLEY P ICTURE AND DINNER .

I BOUGHT four black horses Sandboy,

”

N igger

boy ,

”

T ravel ler ” and P iccadilly

l 6 th J uly—Went one day to dine at Ri chmondStar and Garter—with Frank G rant and J ohn

Coupland,M . P .H . Quorn . M rs. Cal lender w ent

on the box of my coach. Lord and Lady Crawfo rd

were in the gardens,before thei r marriage.

1 4th August. —Started from London on the coach

to drive home to F ife . F i rst night stopped at the

Peahen I nn at St . Albans stopped there Sunday on

M onday,lunch at Woburn Slept at N eWp o rt

-P agnel

next day arrived at the cottage at Bri xworth ; re

mained there three or four days ; 20th,drove to

Rugby ; Slept there ; next day put coach on rai l

down to Kendal and Oxenholme,and drove on to

Windermere Hotel,Bowness stayed there Sunday ;

next day to Coni ston went to see Furness Abbey

had lunch at Grassmere,and on to Derwent Water

to Keswick ; T routbeck ; U l l swater, lunch ; Penrith.

We had lovely weather al l the time and i t was

capi tal fun,but very hard work . We had to pack

the coach ourselves as the men had to look after the

horses,and in the afternoon we rowed on the lakes .

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The horses did capi tal ly— never had a scratch or a

sore neck,and got so quiet that they would al l drink

out of the same trough on the roadside.

On starting from Penrith knocked over a wheel

barrow in the street drove on to Carl i sle put coach

on rail to Edinburgh ; put up coach and horses at

Scott Croal’

s,and went ourselves to the Windsor

Hotel,M i ss Brown ’ s

,in Shandwick Place ; over the

ferry to Burnti sland and got home on Saturday ,2 0th August. Wi fe Improved much in health duringthe j ourney.

2 5th September. —Started again in coach ; left

Charleton had lunch at Dunnikier ; stopped at

P itfirrane,and remained there Sunday took Arthur

and Lady Halkett,M i ss H i l l

,and slept at Bridge-Of

Al lan next day cal led at Sir W. Maxwel l’ s at Keir ;

had lunch at Callender on to T rossachs met coach

on narrow part of road—just tipped hind wheel and

frightened al l the passengers. N ext day Arthur and

Lady H . went by steamer,and home vid Loch

Lomond . We went on to Lochearnhead—a capital

inn . Sir J ohn Macgregor was staying there. N ext

day lunch at Lawers with David Wi l l iamson,and on

to Perth slept there and home next day.

5th October. —Went to Edinburgh for races on6 th ,

and were trotting gaily down hil l past P iershill

barracks , crossing the rai lway,when a train came

out of the tunnel and gave a scream . N iggerboy

stopped suddenly,the pole caught him on the quarters

,

and knocked him head over heel s. He pulled his

neighbour after him . The pole broke, both the

COL . ANSTRUTHER THOMSON

wheelers tumbled down,and al l four horses disap

peared under the coach . One of them screamed

l ike a dying hare . T here was nothing visible but

the point of the pole and our toes at the edge of the

footboard . T he 1 7 th Lancers’ coach was close b e

hind us. T hey pul led up,al l j umped down

,seized

the wheel s and pulled the coach back,and nothing

was broke except a ti rret trodden off one of the

leaders ’ col lars . Niggerb oy had a few scratches,

where the others had trodden on him .

Fortunately Henry Montgomery appeared in an

open cab,so he took Mrs. T homson with him and

went on to the races . A’bus wi th three horses over

took us. The driver pul led up and said,Hul lo

,

Captain,What ’ s the matter ? ” I said

,

“We ’ve brokeour pole. You have two

,you might lend us one .

”

He said,What shal l I do with one pole and three

horses ? ”

M r. Croal then arrived in a gig and said,

By al l means lend the Captain a pole,and you go

on with two horses ” . M r. Croal was standing on the

road by hi s gig,when a fel low with an American

trotter came down the road about twenty miles an

hour,caught the wheel of the gig

,and turned i t right

upside down . Where the h—ll are you coming to“Why the devil don

’ t you get out of the way ? —andwent on without stopping. We got the pole belong

ing to the ’bus,but it was rather too large

,so we

borrowed a ki tchen chopper at a publ ic house,and

pared i t down to fi t,and set sai l again

,and I got to

the races in good time.

About 20th October,Charles Hewitt

,Henry

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Sanders and J ohn Drage came from N o rthamp ton

shi re to stay at Charleton . Hounds met at New

I nn . Charl ie Gardyne was Master.

A fine Old Scotch farmer,George Wi lkie

,l ived

at N ottingham farm . I said to Sanders,

“If you

want to see a fine old Scotchman,go to that house

He rode up and rattled at the door wi th hi s whip.

A lass came with no shoes or stockings,and bare

arms. He said,I say

,got a bit of bread and cheese

in the ’ouse ? ”

T he girl looked at him and said,

“ Nae bread and cheese for the l ikes of you,

” and

went into the house again . So he never saw my old

friend .

We went over to Hopetoun one day and hunted

with the Linl i thgow and Stirl ing Hounds. Lord

Hopetoun was always glad to see fol lowers of the

Pytchley Hounds,of which he had been master.

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-Remained at Charleton that winter

ti l l the 2 I st J anuary,1 870,

when I returned to the

cottage at Brixworth. Got a few days’ hunting ;and the dinner took place at N orthampton on the

1o th of February. I t was pretty hard frost at the

time,and a snowstorm three days afterwards.

PRESENTAT ION To J. ANSTR UTHER THOMSON, ESQ ,

LATE MASTER OF THE PYTCHLEY HUNT .

On T hursday evening last upwards of 200

gentlemen sat down to dinner at the George Hotel,

the occasion of thi s large gathering being the presen

tation of a testimonial to J . Anstruther T homson,

Esq. ,late Master of the Pytchley Hounds. A


number of pheasants were sent by General Bouverie

for the dinner,as a compliment to the occasion .

The testimonial consi sted Ofa portrai t of Captain

T homson,by Sir Franci s Grant , President of the

Royal Academy. The l ikeness i s a very striking

one. Captain T homson i s represented on hi s

favouri te hunter ‘ I ri s,

’ and i s surrounded by six or

seven of hi s favouri te hounds,one of them being the

wel l-known ‘Governess ’

. T he horse and hounds

are as good likenesses as the portrait,and the

minutest detail s are carried out with wonderful fidel i ty

and exactness. I n the background is an old tree,

with the branches bare of leaves in the winter season,

the local i ty being well—known to the members of the

hunt. T he picture i s said to be Sir F ranci s Grant’ s

best work of the kind,and by those who have seen

it thi s wil l readily be bel ieved,as i t seems to be

almost faul tless as a work of art. I t i s a rare thing

to find an arti st who excel s both in portrai t painting

and in animal painting , b ut in thi s picture both are

so good it i s difficul t to say in which department the

arti st has bee n most successful .“The chair was occupied by Colonel Loyd

Lindsay,the vice-chai r being fi l led by Matthew

Oldacre,E sq. Amongst those present were : T he

Earl of Rosslyn,the Right Hon. H . Gu Lidde ll,

M .P .,the Hon . F i tzpatrick Vernon

,Sir Charles

I sham,Bart.

,Sir Algernon Peyton

,Bart.

,General

Sir Frederick Horn ,Bart.

,the Right Hon. George

Ward Hunt,M .P .

,Sackvil le George Stop fo rd,

E sq.,

M .P .,Maj or Fai rfax Cartwright , M .P .

,Albert Pell ,


E sq.,M . P Maj or Whyte—Melvi l le

,Mr. H . O.

N e therco te,M r. R . Lee Bevan

,Mr. W. Smyth

,

M r. W. T ruman M i l l s,M r. Watson

,Colonel

H iggins,Colonel Jenyns, Lieut. -Colonel T homas

Arthur,Colonel Maddocks

,Captain Percy Wi l l iams

,

Captain Douglas,Captain Pearcy

,Mr. George

Ashby Ashby,Mr. Al len A. Young ,

M r. H. H .

Hungerford,Mr. Lionel Stop fo rd,

Mr. W. G .

Duncan,Mr. P . T hursby

,the Rev . C . F . Watkins

,

Mr. Ew ins Bennett,Mr. J ohn Ogilvie

,Mr. T .

Bennett , Mr. Lewis Bennett (Reading), Mr. Hugh

Haig,Mr. Gervase Wright

,Mr. J . Shield ,

Mr.

Robe rt Cartwright,M r. J ames Montgomery, M r. W.

Al lan Wo odro ss (Garvald ,N M r. J . W. Morrice

,

M r. Alderman Gates,and Messrs . A. B . Markham ,

J ohn Woods,R. H . Hewitt

,Henry Sanders

,Al fred

J effery, J . T ressler

,A. W. Doig

,W. Manning,

B . F .

Drage,George T urner

,Matthew Oldacre , Robert

Battam s,Wi l l iam Shaw

,J ohn Shaw

,Broughton

Shaw,T homas Smith

,Ri chard Ratcl i ffe

,T . B .

T urnel l,Lucas Foster

,Henry H iggi ns, H . Atter

bury, J . K. E l l iott

, J . T . Smith ,T . Wal l i s

,T .

Phi ll ips,T . Drage

,W. Drage , sen. , J ohn Cooper

,

H . J . Little,H . H iggi ns , j un .

,W. Goodliffe

,

E lworthy,Andrew

,G . H . Burnham ,

N . P . Sharman,

Edward Sharman,W. H . Wykes , W. Smart , W. A.

Judkins,J ohn J udkins

, J . W. VVhitton ,Walter Shaw

,

T homas Shaw ,W. West , C . F. Goody

,H . Atter

bury,F . J . F ield

,T . Ratliffe ,

Wm . J effrey,M . A.

Boeme,H . Cooper

,W. Porte r , Edwin T resham ,

R.

C . Andrews , John Parsons,P . Al len

,J ohn Dyke

,

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said i t might be said that the toasts was not a

necessi ty at a fox-hunting dinner,but if they would

look at i t a moment they would see that such was

not the case. The late Duke of Wel l ington attri

buted the prowess of hi s officers in the Peninsular

War to their education in the hunting field,where

they had gained that decision,judgment and self

rel iance which was always of great use in a campaign.

Long might our army be officered with fox-hunters.

T heir sai lors were not inferior to thei r soldiers,but

he did not know whether the day was not coming

when that toast would have to undergo some modi

fication,for under the present Government the army

and navy seemed to be getting gradual ly smaller

and beautiful ly less . T hey were told,however

,that

the more they were reduced the more efficient

they became,and in a short time they might expect

them to arrive at the highest point of efficiency,

namely,n il. I f that was the case the country might

trust to the efficiency of the volunteer forces,rep re

sented in thi s county by the mil i tia,the yeomanry

,

and the volunteers,of whom the county was j ustly

proud. He would couple the toast with the name

of Sir Henry Hom e for the army , Colonel Maddox

for the mil it ia,and Colonel Loyd-Lindsay fo r the

volunteers.“Sir F rederick Horne responded for the army

,

and said hi s own experience of forty-two years in the

army confirmed the truth of the Duke ofWell ington ’ s

opinion as to the value of the hunting field as a

training for the army. During the thi rteen years

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he himself commanded a regiment hi s rule was

general leave to al l officers who wanted to go fox

hunting,for he always found that they returned to

their military duties with more zeal and more cheer

fulness. T he effect of hunting was to rai se the

spi rits and increase the courage of those who engaged

in it.

The Chairman now rose to give the toast of

the evening,and

,i n doing so

,he said : l have now

to propose the most important toast of the evening.

But before paying thi s tribute of respect from the

chair,and before presenting the testimonial

,which

i t i s my duty to present,I wish to mention some

friends of our own,and some friends of our guest ,

who are unavoidably absent,but who wish to express

thei r sati sfaction at the compliment now being paid

to Mr. Anstruther T homson . T he fi rst letter which

I wil l read i s one from Lord Spencer. I t i s written

to M r. Liddell,whom all will gratefully remember in

connection with thi s dinner,for i ts success i s princi

pally owing to his exertions. Lord Spencer says“ My dear Liddell ,—N othing would have given me

greater pleasure than to have been able to accept the

invitation which the committee of the ‘Pytchley

T estimonial Fund’

so kindly made to me through

you. You know how fond I am of our ' Pytchley

hunting,and to be among the various members of

the county at a dinner given to T homson would be

a great pleasure to me. I always admired his ex

cellence as a sportsman,and

,as a personal friend ,

Should much l ike to be present on an occasion so

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interesting to him . I cannot,however

,leave my

duties here,and I must

,with regret

,dec l ine the

proposal—Very truly yours,SP ENCER.

”

My next

letter i s from a gentleman very well known in these

parts. I al lude to Mr. Owen Wall i s,who belongs

to a class,and i s

,indeed

,an ornament to a class

,

with whom our guest i s most deservedly and most

highly popular,I mean the farmers of Northampton

shire. Mr. Wal l i s says : T here are no t,

‘

I think,

more than two or three others better qual ified than

mysel f to offer an opinion as to the hunting of the

Pytchley Hounds,for i t was my good fortune to

commence my smal l hunting career under the cele

b rated J ohn Musters , of whom I have a vivid reco l

lection ; and I consider mysel f equal ly fortunate in

having fini shed i t under the no less celebrated

J ohn Anstruther T homson . I n my judgment,the

first was,and the latter i s

,the most perfect master

of hi s craft I have ever met with . Marvel lous

horsemen both,they nevertheless rode to hunt

,and

did not hunt to ride,as i s too often the case with

professing sportsmen,Masters of Hounds sometimes

included. I have other letters of friends which I

might read,but I won

’

t further cal l your attention

to those who are absent,when I can so much more

agreeably point to those who are present. And

when I look round upon the company assembled in

thi s room,I am struck with the singular happy

concurrence of men of all classes and vocations,all

of them useful and honourable in l i fe. We are

assembled thi s evening in company with some of

COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON

the best farmers,in one of the best-farmed counties

of England. What body of men could be more

fi t to pronounce an opinion on the merit s of fox

hunting,or better fi tted to speak of the qual i t ies of

our guest ? We are in company with legislators from

both Houses of Parl iament. Who i s there more

competent to speak of the well-known advantages of

cordial i ty and good feel ing which spring up in the

hunting field than those who have to govern the

country ? Authors and writers are not so plenti ful

that we can speak of them in the plural,yet we have

one here,the most popular of our popular favouri tes.

T he author of H olmby H ouse,a tale of old

N o rthamp tonshire ,can throw a halo of chival ry and

poetry round the noble Sport. We are amongst

soldiers. I should l ike to know what soldier there

i s who can ’ t be enthusiastic,if not eloquent

,in prai se

Of fox-hunting ? Who are the men who have led

our companies and headed our squadrons in presence

of the enemy ? Who are the men who have foughtin I ndia and in the Crimea ? Are they not men

trained in the games of thi s country,of which fox

hunting is the highest and noblest of al l ? And

lastly , gentlemen ,we are in a company who are al l

of them fox-hunters,be they soldiers

,sai lors

,farmers

,

or authors,and who can be more fi t than such a

company to drink the health of J . Anstruther T hom

son,who has just now been wel l described as a

master of the craft ? Gentlemen,thi s gathering ,

besides being in honour of Captain T homson , i s a

demonstration in favour of the noblest of man’

s

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amusements,but i t i s one which few become masters

Of, and only one in a hundred i s able to conduct

to the sati sfaction of those who join in it . Mr. Bright

once said he would stand at T emple Bar,and that

the fi rst 300 men who passed would be better

Members of Parl iament than those who then sat in

Westminster . But,good or bad

,they would be

a troublesome lot to manage,but not more so

perhaps than the assembly which the Master of the

Pytch ley has to control many times in a season . I n

the rifle -shooting world we know the term “ al l

comers,

” and the character i s not unknown at the

covert Side . Let him be rich or poor,on foot or on

horse,he i s welcome to all that the best of us can

get,and i f he should happen to get a good start

,and

can keep i t,he i s as happy as any man need be

in thi s world. Such i s the unselfish sport of fox

hunting. Gentlemen,I wil l no longer detain you

from the toast which you are ready to receive and

and anxious to welcome,

“T he health of Captain

Anstruther T homson ’

. I must,however

,present to

our guest the picture which we all look at with so

much pleasure as being a true and faithful portrait

of our esteemed friend . I t i s a tribute of respect

carrying with i t the best wi shes of no fewer than

37 5 gentlemen who have subscribed for i t. I t i s a

testimonial from neighbours and friends in return

for the unceasing efforts which he made to promote

the sport of fox-hunting,and it must be gratifying to

him to know that the compliment originated with

the large class of farmers whom he has done so much

J.A.T . ON IRIS.

P YTCHL EY , 1 870.


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fox-hunting,and by your presence here thi s evening

you give your countenance and support to the great

national sport of fox-hunting. I need not put you

in mind of the j oys of the chase,or recount to yon

the advantages of fox-hunting,ei ther commercial ly

or social ly,but

,as far as I am individual ly con

cerned,had i t not been for fox-hunting I should

probably have been unknown to most of you,and

certainly I should never have had the honour of

standing in thi s position . A few years Since,when

Lord Spencer resigned the mastership of the Pytchley

Hounds,our old friend

,MajorWhyte-M elvi l le

,wrote

to me,saying he thought I should l ike to gal lop over

the grass grounds of N orthamptonshire,and hunt

the fox in Rockingham Forest. I had no doubt that

I should like i t,but I reflected that if the pleasures

were great,so were the responsibi l i ties

,and I hesi

tated before I durst venture to accept so large an

establ i shment. My wife , however , had the casting

vote,and she gave i t in favour of Pytchley. Of

course I knocked under , and became Master of the

Pytchley,and when I got there I found that the

difficul t ies and responsibi l i ties had not been a bi t

over-rated for I am sure the Master of the Pytchley

Hounds Wlll always find plenty of occupation both for

body and mind . When I first began to hunt hounds,

twenty-two years since,my old friend

,PercyWi l l iams

,

my brother soldier and brother huntsman,gave me a

bit of excellent advice . He said,Keep your temper

,

and stick to the l ine ” I never forgot that,but have

always tried to ac t up to it. I always tried not to be

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too much elated by success , or too much depressed

by adversity,and I stuck to the l ine as long as you

would al low me. I endeavoured to hunt the country

fai rly,good places or bad. I tried to do my duty

to you as we ll as lay in my power , sometimes under

very difficul t ci rcumstances, and I can only say I

have been treated with the greatest kindness by

everybody,and I have never in tentional ly made use

of a single word which could hurt the feel ings of any

one. I f,from any misunderstanding

,any one has

ever fel t hurt from any action I committed,I can only

say I hope they will forget and forgive as freely as I

do, and remember that I was Often placed in ci rcum

stances of considerable provocation. N ow,gentle

men , there are two things very desi rable for a Master

OfHounds to have,and I am sorry to say I was not

blessed with either of them : one i s a comfortable

house handy to the kennel s,and the other i s a con

siderable balance in the bank. N ow I have not got

a large income,and I have got a large family

,and

they al l inheri t my fox-hunting propensi ties. T he

youngest of them,indeed

,has al ready succeeded in

gal loping her pony to a stand-sti l l ; they al l want

to go out hunting at once,and that adds to the

difficulties , and increases the expenses. As to the

house , through the kindness“

of Lord Overstone and

Colonel Loyd-Lindsay,I was located at Pitsford ,

but that was too far from the kennel s,and I went to

Brixworth,where I found an excellent landlord in my

Old hunting friend, Mr. Drage

,but unfortunately the

landlord was better than the house. I t was so smal l ,

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we could scarcely scramble into i t,and I got into my

present house,but

,as I had to build most of the

house myself,as the house grew larger the balance

got less,and now I have a tolerably good house I

have no further use for i t. The want of a house ,however

,was not my reason for giving up the hunt.

As you all know,M rs. T homson had a very severe

i l lness. I fel t I could not,with justice to you

,or

with sati sfaction to myself,continue to hunt the

Pytchley Hounds. I,therefore

,reluctantly sent in

my resignation . A few days afterwards a body of

gentlemen,amongst whom was our worthy vice

chairman,did me the honour to present me Wi th a

requisition,in which they said

,We

,the undersigned

farmers,graziers

,and others

,have heard with extreme

regret of your intention to give up the mastership of

the Pytchley Hounds. We earnestly request you

wi l l reconsider your determination,but whatever the

resul t may be,we wish to express the high esteem

your undeviating gentlemanly conduct has won from

us.” I can but say thi s was one of the greatest

compl iments I ever received in my l ife. I do not

remember what the number Of signatures was , but

there were five or Six sheets of paper, and one of these

contained I I I signatures. I then heard from our

worthy vice-chairman,for the fi rst time , that i t was

your intention to present me with some other mark

of your regard. I never,however

,for one moment

suppose d that i t would grow into a thing of such

value and magnitude as that magnificent picture you

have now presented to me. I need not tel l you that

COL . ANSTRUTHER THOMSON x7

I value i t,as a beautiful work of art

,painted by so

di stingui shed an arti st and so good a sportsman as

the President Of the Royal Academy , and I am proud

to have the privi lege of call ing him a fel low-country

man and an old friend. I can hardly remember the

day when the name of F rank Grant was not famil iar

to me. I need not tel l you I shall value that picture

as an hei rloom which wil l descend to my family,but

I wil l tel l you what I value more than al l—I value

your good opinion,and accept your gift as a testimony

of that good opinion,and as a mark of your kindness,

which so much exceeds my merits. I can only con

clude with the same Simple honest words with which

I commenced—I thank you . I can only add that I

shal l always have a pleasing remembrance of the

grass fields of N orthamp tonshire . Wherever I maybe I shall have a grateful recol lection of your kind

ness, and shal l always be ready to j oin in the cry of

Pytchley for ever

Captain T homson rose and said,

‘Pytchley for

ever ’

. T hose were the last words he addressed to

them before he sat down,and more appropriate words

he could not use in proposing to them ‘The health

of Mr. Craven,and success to the Pytchley Hounds

Al though no longer Official ly connected with the

Pytchley Hunt,he would do anything to serve i t at

any time,and by any means in hi s power. When

he sent i n hi s resignation about thi s time last year,M r. Craven took the hounds

,and during the short

time he had had them he had shown a courage , a

determination,and a power to endure fatigue which

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were rarely seen . Another qual i ty for which Mr.

Craven was remarkable was hi s punctuali ty, a virtue

in which he was very deficient. Whatever the di stancemight be

,or however bad the weather

,Mr. Craven

always attended,and was always at his time. Mr.

Craven took the hounds under trying circumstances,

and he was glad to bear hi s testimony to the manner

in which he had hunted them . He had shown several

days’

good sport,and

,with a l i ttle more expe rience ,

he fel t sure Mr. Craven would get to the head of hi s

profession . T hese were troublous times for fox

hunting,for they had heard of places where coverts

had been burnt and a pack of hounds had been

poi soned on account of a personal quarrel with the

master. N ow personal quarrel s ought never to be

introduced into the hunting-fie ld. Other places were

worse than they were,but even in the Pytchley they

were not quite free from reproach. T hey had heard

of places where there were no foxes where there ought

to have been,and they had heard of dead foxes where

l ive ones ought to be . He would beg them earnestly

to get rid of those evil s and to give thei r cordial

support to their master,and if they did that

,he had

no doubt the master would do hi s duty to them . He

wished Mr. Craven every success,and could not

conclude without expressing the hope that Mr. Craven

would keep the hounds as many years as he had

done,and be surrounded with as many kind friends

and good Sportsmen as he saw around him then.

Mr. Craven, in returning thanks,said i t was

no easy task for him to follow in the footsteps Of


a gentleman who had no equal as a huntsman .

Previous to coming there Captain T homson had had

several years’ experience as a Master of Hounds,and

they could not expect him,an untried man

,to get in

the same groove at once,but from the cordial wel

come he had received he fel t sure,however

,that they

would not be hard upon him . T hey had not had a

very good season up to the present time but he

thought they had done as well as thei r neighbours.

T hey were just getting into the best part of the season

when an accident happened to hi s huntsman . The

height of hi s ambi tion had always been to handle a

pack of fox-hounds,and if the sportsmen would only

give them room,and not run over them

,they would

hunt the fox without any assi stance from him . He

begged to thank them for the manner in which the

toast had been received,and would only assure them

that as long as he had anything to do with the

Pytchley Hounds he would do his utmost to keep up

thei r prestige.“The Vice-President proposed the heal th of a

nobleman who was exceedingly fond of the noble

sport of fox-hunting,and who formerly held the

honourable position of the Master of the Pytchley

Foxhounds, hi s E xcel lency Earl Spencer. Al though

now absent from the country,Earl Spencer did not

forget to be a contributor to the Pytchley pack,and

always gave strict injunctions to hi s keepers as to the

preservation of foxes.

A. A. Young,E sq.

,proposed

,

‘The House of

Lords,

’ in a very able speech,and after al luding to

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the non-pol i tical character of the speeches which were

expected to be del ivered on that occasion , he said

that meeting had not been convened,but had ari sen

from the spontaneous individual i ty of every person

who wished to do honour to a gentleman whom they

al l delighted to honour. Gentlemen had assembled

from all parts of the country,from the north of N orth

Bri tain, and from the southern counties of England

,

while all N o rthamp tonshire was present to offer a

testimonial to a gentleman whose portrait was so

much l ike himself,that whether he looked on thi s

picture or on that,he hardly knew the difference.

T he House of Lords was not an inappropriate toast

for an occasion of that kind,for as he be l ieved a hater

of fox-hunting had no vi rtues,he bel ieved that a lover

of fox-hunting was a representative of al l the vi rtues,

and was a man who entertained loyalty to hi s Queen,

and reverence for al l the great insti tutions of hi s

country. T here was such a thing as blood in the

human race as wel l as in the breed of horses,and

long might it flouri sh . I n the past hi story of thi s

country, noblemen had not been wanting who joy

fully laid thei r heads upon the block when they

bel ieved that the interests of thei r country were at

stake, and should the insti tutions of thi s great country

ever be again at stake,whatever might be the cause

,

whether soc ial,pol i ti cal or rel igious

,he hoped there

would never be wanting noblemen who would be

ready to follow the example of their ancestors,and

to say dnlce et decorum est p ro patria mor i. Wi ththat toast he would couple the name of Lord Rosslyn.


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couple the name of the sen ior member for the'm Division of thi s county.

'

he Right Hon. GeorgeWard Hunt responded ,

id :‘When I came here to-night I did not feel

came here in the capaci ty of a member for the

but I came here as an admirer of the noble

which our di stinguished guest i s so great a

I was anxious to pay a tribute of respec t

ratitude to him for the sport he has given me

y neighbours for so many years past. I must

I am somewhat surpri sed that the toast which

st been given has found a place in the l i st thi s

g,for we are met to do honour to our guest

,

zleb rate the art of fox-hunting. Few persons

c ogni se me as having met me often of late in

Inting-field ; that , however, i s my mi sfortune ,)t my fault

,for i t has been the pleasure of some

thi s company to send me to a di stant huntingvhe re I have been hunting with a very different

f pack to that of the Pytchley,and over a very

nt sort of country. T0 give you an idea of

iffe rent i t i s,I may tell you that at one of the

of the hounds—I al lude to the St . Stephen ’ s-I have heard one of the leading sport smen

>e the leading insti tution of N orthamptonshi re

P itchley T he St. Stephen’ s country i s a

lifferent country to the Pytchley,and to my

ae lings i s not so pleasant a one. I t i s a sti ff

y,and I have seen some very ugly fall s ; but

some attractions which the Pytchley Hunt has

Fo r in stance , we never fail to meet. NO frost


ever stops the hounds,and we have very few blank

days ; and i t must possess very great attractions to

some,for I can say thi s , that although I have never

seen al l the members for the county and the borough

at the meet of the Pytchley,yet the St. Stephen

’

s

pack manages to attract them al l at the same time.

The St. Stephen’ s pack i s i n the same condition as

the Pytchley we have lately had a change of master

ship,and we have not only a new master

,but we

have an enti rely new pack of hounds. You know it

i s a different th ing the taking up an Old pack,and

getting a scratch lot of dogs together,and last season

we had the advantage of see ing collected together,at

our first meet,dogs of al l s izes and colours. I n fact

I heard some very i l l—natured people remark that

some of the dogs had been at the ratting business

before. I n al l hunts there was a difference of opinion

how sport should be conducted,and I should not l ike

to give you my opinion how the St. Stephen ’s pack

hunted the last season,but I am told the new master

was exceedingly well sati sfied w i th the performances

of hi s hounds. He said,at al l events

,they had one

very great run over a very severe country,and ki l led

thei r fox , and he was consequently much del ighted.

Critics , however—and they had cri ti cs in the St.

Stephen’s hunt

,and he was one of the number—said

the master l ifted the hounds. N ow,I have got that

weight that I am obl iged to ride to hunt,and not

hunt to ride,and I must confess I am an admirer of

that style of hunting in which the hounds and not the

huntsman hunt the fox. T he master was very proud


of his pack,for he had no ski rters and very few

babblers,but there was a great deal too much too

tooing,

” and if the hounds did not go at once at the

cal l of the horn,the whips were very severe upon

them . I have no doubt that as the hounds get more

seasoned,and as they get to understand a l ittle more

of the noble science of hunting,some of these faults

may be corrected. I t may surpri se you,that al though

this i s the month of February,we are only at the

commencement Of the season,and it may be we may

kil l a good many May foxes. We have the same

master as last season,and I have no doubt he wil l

carry out the same old system Of l i fting hi s hounds,

and not leave them to find the scen t themselves. I

was at the first meet the other day,and saw some

new dogs there,and some of them were more ex

traordinary importations than those which appeared

the last season . T here was an importation from the

T ipperary kennel,which I hardly think any Master

of Hounds would l ike to see hunting with his pack.

I t was at the covert side I learned that the master

intended to draft the T ipperary importation , and if

that be the case,I hOpe at the first meet next week I

shall have greater pleasure in meeting hi s hounds. I

am exceedingly grateful to you that,amidst the

exciting topics of thi s day, you have found a place

for those who follow the St. Stephen’

s pack. I u sed

to say there was no ill of m ind or body which a good

gallop across the country would not cure. T hat was

when I could get something to carry me , but with

the pack I shal l have to hunt the rest of this season ,

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the hunting i s of a kind which often causes many il l s

both of mind and body. I shall,however

,derive

pleasure in thinking that in pursuing the arduous

labours of that chase I shal l have the good wil l and

goo d wishes of the members of the Pytchley Hunt. ’

Major Whyte-Melv il le proposed ‘The Duke of

Grafton,the Hon. George F i tzwil l iam ,

W. Tailby,

E sq. ,Robe rt Arkwright

,E sq.

,and Masters of Fox

hounds in the country,

’ and al luded to the sacrifices

which were made by both landlords and farmers,in

order to promote such a noble sport. T hey were,

however,greatly indebted to the Masters of Fox

hounds,whom they made responsible for everything.

T he noblemen and gentlemen whose heal th he had

proposed had won the respect and affection of al l

c lasses,who knew anything about them . T he toast

was coupled with the name of Captain Arkwright .“ Captain Arkwright returned thanks

,and said

be commenced hunting twenty-two years ago under

thei r honoured guest , Captain T homson .

”

Song composed by T om F i rr,and sung by him at

the Northampton dinner. T une , The F ine Old

Engli sh Gentleman

I’ll sing you a song, a fine new song,

Made by a mad young pate ,

Ofone ofthe fine st huntersOfthe pre sent date

To see h im o’er a country go ,

At such a s lash ing rate ,

And some ofh is p erfo rmance sTo you I

’ll try and state .

’T is that s lashing horse cal led “ Iris

,

One ofthe pre sent date .

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He is second to none in England,Wh ich all ofyou must know ,

Either in the hunting fie ldOr at the hunter

’s Show

Now ,for instance

,at P e te rborough

T o touch him th ere was none ,

And l ikewise at Weatherby

He was th ere pronounced AI,

Was that s lash ing horse cal led Iris ,”

One of the pre sent date .

Ifyou put h im under th e standard

You’ l l find h im

H is sup erio r in Shap e and makeI’

m sure you neve r knewFirst go from h is head to h is tai l ,And down to the fe t lock ,

P ut fi te en stone upon h is back,

He is firm as any rock,

IS that s lashing horse cal led Iris,

One of the pre sent date .

T o se e h im at the co vert Side ,SO quie t do e s h e stand,

And when he hears a hound speakH e

’ l l give h is b it a cham p ;And when the hounds have found the fox,And se tt l ed o n h im steady,

NO matter in what countryT o go h e is always ready,

Is that s lash ing ho rse cal led Iris,

One ofthe pre sent date”.

Hark,the re

’s a ho l loa away

On th e o the r Side ;

And now all your b ruise rs ,

You’ l l have a chance to ride ;

But wait a b it, and le t the houndsGe t fairly on h is l ine ,

And ifyou kee p near the wal l eyeIt

’ l l take you all your t ime .

’Tis that s lash ing horse cal led “ Iris,

”

One ofthe present date .


And now along the val eL ike p ige ons they do fly ;

The re is som e timb er in a corner

N early five fe et h ighN ow

,says one , the first who go e s

Wil l com e down with a crackBut h e is o v er l ike a p ige on ,

With the Master on his back ,

Is that s lash ing ho rse cal l ed “ Iris ,

One of the present date .

Stil l on th ey go l ike l ightning,Now there is no time to dwe l l ,

The fence s b ig, the country’s de e p ,

And the pace b egins to te l l ;In another twenty m inute sA wager I wil l b e t

The co ck tai ls they b egin to sto p ,And the swe l ls b egin to fre tAt that s lash ing ho rse cal l ed “ Iris ,

One ofthe pre sent date .

Now from Séent to v iew they’ ve raced h im ,

He canno t longe r wearWOO-ho o p ,1 he die s , a p luckt ’

nu,

And the Maste r he is there .

N ow here’s success to Captain Thomson ,

Whe re ve r h e may go ,

H is e qual in the hunting fie ldWe ne ve r m ore shal l know .

For he is king ofall l ive sportsmen

Ofthe pre sent date .

J ohn Robinson wrote rather a nasty arti cle in

L and and Water describing the dinner,to which

Charles Newdegate replied in the St.jafnes’

s Gaz ette .

NORTHAMP TON SHIRE.—T here was a remarkably

scanty attendance of N orthamp tonshire squi res at

the dinner last week,when Captain Anstruther

‘The w o o -ho o p is to be ho l loaed in the usual way when a fox


T homson ’ s portrai t was presented to him . Of

course the county members were there , ex—oj‘icio

,

but there were real ly barely a dozen other country

gentlemen,to use the term in i ts ordinary significa

t ion. T here were a good many strangers,and a

large attendance of farmers,but not so many of

the latter as might have been expected,considering

the great populari ty of Captain T homson amongst

that class. Wi th the squi res the style of hunting

adopted by the late M .E H. was not very popular.

By some speakers at the dinner a great deal was

made of the difference between ‘hunting to ride ’

and ‘rid ing to hunt,

’ as if the pleasures of hunting

and riding were distinct,or even opposed to each

other. Captain T homson,though a bril l iant horse

man,for no one in England has a better seat or

better hands,had the misfortune not to Show much

sport last year,when all the packs in the neigh

b ourhood were lucky. He appeared to be a perfect

master of the art of fox-hunting,yet hi s hounds

were never quite up to the mark,and were more

ready to follow than to hunt ; but they were not

always ready enough to fol low,for I have seen them

hang in cover for a long time after the fox had gone

away and the huntsman was blowing hi s whistle

with al l hi s might. T he tru th i s,that a whistle i s

a very bad instrument for getting hounds out of

cover ; the sound is so shri l l that unless they can

see the huntsman they canno t perceive whence it

proceeds. The long j ourneys by road and the long

days’ hunting the hounds so Often had may have


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aste. Of the after-dinner speeches i t may be said

hat some were too pol i ti cal,some dull

,and others

food. Mr. Watkins,the rector of B rixworth

,made

rambling speech,which concluded wi th a quotation

rom one of Sir Walter Scott ’ s poems. Unfortun

Itely,the quotation had no reference to anything

hat M r. Watkins had said,and had nothing to do

vi th the occasion . T he best speeches are those of

he chai rman,Colonel Loyd-Lindsay

,and of Captain

fhomson. The latter was qui te justified in saying

hat he ‘had endeavoured to hunt the country fai rly,

good places and bad’

. I wil l go further,and say that

L fairer Master of Hounds never l ived. Whateverhe hour

,whatever the distance from the kennel s

,

Zap tain T homson would persevere as long as there

vas a chance of sport ; so that no one from Lilbourne

O Oundle Wood could say that hi s interest was

Ieglected. Mr. A. A. Young,i n proposing the

Iealth of the House of Lords,took a ‘high-faluting

ine,and talked of ‘many noble lords who were

e ady to lay thei r heads upon the block should

hei r country’ s necessi ties require it,

’ concluding with

lie/re et a’ecornrn

,etc. Lord Rosslyn

,in return ing

hanks,declared that he had ‘no wish to be one of

he blockheads ’

. Maj or Whyte-Melvi l le proposedhe health of the Duke of Grafton

,the Hon. George

fiIt z w illiam ,

Mr. T ailby and M r. Arkwright. T hose

vho knew Maj or Whyte-Melvi l le personally , and byIis writings (and what N o rthamp tonshire man does

Io t hoped that he would have spoken at some

ength on subjects he i s so wel l acquainted with.


Unfortunately,he cut hi s speech very short. T om

Firr,late second whip to Captain T homson

,now

huntsman to the N orth Warwickshi re,sang an

amusing song. The Right Hon. G . W. Hunt,

M .P . ,spoke very wel l

,though he trod on rather

dangerous ground when he complained of Mr.

Gladstone l i fting his pack too much. Mr. Hunt’ s

temper,however

,i s so imperturbable

,that no one

could quarrel with him if they tried. Sir Franci s

Grant’ s picture i s considered a great success. I t

represents Captain T homson on ‘ I ri s,the horse

he bought in at f, 500 ; the hounds‘Singer,

’

Ral ly

wood,Dragon ’ and Bondsman ’ being round him .

”

—From L and and Water

“ SP ORT FLASH —5th March 1 870.—T here is

something consolatory in the remembrance of former

pleasure and of former woe a sort of satisfact ion in

the consciousness of having enj oyed the one and of

having survived the other,which i s better than the

languor of sati ety or the verju ice of remorse. T he

number of a publ ication for the l gth of last month ,

which cal l s i tself Land and Water,has fal len into our

hands. Our eye wandered on to the second column ,and there i t fel l upon ‘Hunting ’ with ‘Leicester

shire ’ beneath . N atural ly enough ,

’ the notice begins ,‘after twelve days ’ incessant frost

,we have l i ttle or

nothing to recount,

’ and then something about ‘being

puzzled to condense our subject ’

; for which the be

ginning ofthe sentence sufficiently accounts , as wel l as

for ‘yawning over the fixture card whi le the writer’

s

apparently unsuccessful attempt to conjure up visions


of a flying twenty minutes from Barkby,or a scream

Ing burst from Rank sb orough ,

’ when ‘writing after

dinner,

’ exci tes our unfeigned compassion. As we

read on ,the question grew upon us

,

‘could no kind

friend- a wife,for instance

,especial ly if the lady

has any l i terary qualifications - have persuaded thi s

dyspeptic penman to have taken a blue pil l and gone

to bed,instead of labouring through so bil ious a pro

duction ? ’

T he only complaint about Leicestershire

is that the writer has been hustled by second horse

men,who knocked over

,he declares

,sundry naval

and mil itary captains,while breaking

,we suppose

,

or breaking down thei r masters ’ horses. T hey are

not,poor fel lows

,the only beggars to be found on

horseback ; but we cannot boast of such experience

of their ways and manners across country as the

penman of L and and l/Vater . He seems un

popular among his companions,for he proclaims

,

with indignation,that they let the gates slam in his

face.

“ The indigest ion,from which our subject was

evidently suffering,must have reached its cl imax

while he was indit ing his notice of N o rthamp ton

shi re. The county has sinned ,in his Opinion

,whose

farmers—and farmers only ,with few exceptions

Land and Water bel ieves (a great mistake) haveventured to dine together for the purpose of pre

senting Mr. Anstruther T homson with a portrai t

of himself,painted by Sir Franci s Grant ; and thi s ,

just when Land and Water was beginning to

sicken. He must have gone to the dinner, in the


humour,which Pope (not P ius IX .) describes, as

prone to

Damn with faint praise , assent with civi l leer,And without sne ering teach the rest to sneer.

Poor human nature ! what a pity i t i s that such men

are. not made enti rely of clay for clay IS a disinfectant,

and that cannot be thought of L and and Water ashe appears in print. The speeches at the dinner

have no t,we bel ieve

,been publ i shed ; i f they had ,

i t would be curious to ascertain how far L and and

Water’

s description of them is accurate. Some ,’

he writes,

‘were too pol itical,some dull

,and Others

good.

’

One ,that of Mr. Whyte-Melvi l le , was too

short —a very singular comment,considering the

manifest di staste which Land and Water fel t for the

whole proceedings. ‘T om Firr

,late second whip to

Captain T homson,now huntsman to the N orth War

wick shire,sang an amusing song.

’

As second whip

he must have been a good deal among the second

horsemen , but did not let the gates slam in L and

and Water’

s face,we conclude

,and hence thi s com

mendation. But now he i s promoted,and i s always

so wel l wi th hi s hounds,that if ever Land and Water

goes out with the N orth Warwickshire,P i rr wil l

probably Share the fate of hi s late master,be civ il ly

treated to h is face,but find himself shot in the back

,

whenever the next number of the periodical,which

has cost us Sixpence,appears.

Beckford was the fi rst author who convinced

the fashionable world that fox-hunting had taken its

place among the recognised pastimes of Engl i shVOL . IL 3

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gentlemen ; and it i s curious to Observe the wide

contrast of style between Land and Water,and the

first classic among sporting wri ters. T he difference

between their opinions with respect to the essential s

conducive to the noble sport i s stil l more striking.

‘ I t i s sometimes said,

’ writes L and and Water,

‘ that the death of the fox i s the test of good hunting.

Fo r my part,I would only admit such a test wi th

qual ifications. For the chance of a real ly good run

i t may be sometimes right to ri sk losing the line.

’

Has Land and Water ever read Beckford’

s book ?

I f he has, when he had penned these l ines, he may

have been conscious of an indignant ghost at hi s

elbow ; he adds, Of course thi s i s to be taken as the

expression of my own Opin ion,and not as committing

any one else ’

. T here i s a condescension in thi s which

i s almost kind but the vision i s sti l l upon him,and

he becomes apologetic Captain T homson has many

ardent admirers,and

,after al l

,the question i s one of

taste . T he best sportsman i s he who shows the best

sport,and what i s not sport i s a question of taste .

’

So our scribe finds refuge in taste , for which ,i t has

been said,no one can account. I s not thi s just the

fashion in which most of the modern heresies have

been,at first

,timidly promulgated ? Perhaps Land

and Water’

s real taste i s for a paper-chase,led by

a ‘well-discipl ined second horseman,

’

who knows‘every l i ttle place that can be secured by turning a

trifle out of the di rect route,

’ and who wil l leave the

hand—gates open , where the fences are inconvenientl‘y

strong. Our criti c seems to have an eye to business,


and may know that the manager of the periodical

he patronises could supply the material for thi s Sport

on economical terms out of the copies regularly re

turned by the newsmen .

“ Envy and detraction wil l never cease ; they

are of ancient growth , and have pursued eminent

sportsmen scarcely less keenly than great general s.

Mr. Asshe ton Smith was in hi s best days posi tively

detested by many of the gentlemen in pink,whose

successors now appear with nosegays in their button

holes by the covert side on fai r weather mornings.

Wi th these carpet sportsmen such Masters of Houndsas Asshe ton Smith and Anstruther T homson never

wil l be real ly popular ; for , as some of the speakers

at the N orthampton dinner seem to have said,these

exquisites ‘hunt to ride,

’ but do not ‘ride to hunt,

’

and are seldom popular with the farmers . I t i s no

unimportant qual ification in a Master of Hounds that

he should stand wel l wi th the farmers ; they have a

good deal to do both with the land and the water

of the midland,as wel l as other counties

,and have

scarcely less to do with the preservation of foxes

a very unimportant i tem in the opinion of Land and

Water,who

,but for the name of the thing

,might

be satisfied with a drag,Should his supply of paper

run short,owing to the excessive populari ty of hi s

periodical . We do not presume to know upon whose

production we have been commenting but we cannot

help regretting that , i n these days , when gentlemen

in pink form an increasingly large disproportion to

genuine sportsmen,scribes should be found to decry the

3


most eminent of the few gentlemen who really both can

and wil l hunt their own hounds better than most pro

fessional huntsmen .-From the St.james

’

s Gaz ette .

Critici sm of Grant ’ s picture and engraving of

J . Anstruther T homson and I ris Grant on

engraving .

2 9 SUS SEX P LACE,1 1 th April, 1 87 1 .

M y DEAR T HOMSON,

I have seen the print. I t i s wel l drawn

and carefully executed and the l ikeness kept. But

I regret that i t was not brought to me whil st in

progress. I fear i t would be difficul t to al ter i t

now. I should have,I expect

,made the coat tel l

as a dark against a l ight sky.

Yours truly

F . GRANT.

1 87 1 .— My sister, Mrs. Montgomery

,writes

,I s

there any chance of your si tting to F . Grant again ?

I f so,could you or any one hint to him that to make

the l ikeness perfect he ought to throw a shade on the

side of the temple bone to make the forehe ad more

broad and square across the eyebrows. Many have

remarked i t,and i t i s that form that gives the organ

of thought,form and observation

,that gives your

character. I f you wil l look at your father’ s picture

you wil l see what I mean,via ,

across’

the bone of

the eyebrow i s broad,broader than the temples

above. I suppose he wil l put a touch of l ight into

the horse ’ s eye before the engraver gets i t,or the

farmers wil l not be sati sfied .

”



ago. She and her baby are going on as well as

possible.

I hope to be at my Atherstone sale on the 2 o th

April . I hope Mrs. Woods and all your family are

wel l .

Ever yours,

“

J . A. T .

CHAP EL BRAMP TON ,“2 8th june, 1 87 2 .

M Y DEAR SIR,

“ By this day ’ s post I had a letter from

Mr. Green saying the arti st’

s proof engraving would

be forwarded to me when the frame i s ready. I n

thanking you again for your very great kindness,I

can say (and with great sinceri ty) that that picture

of yoursel f wi ll be most highly valued by me,not only

as the portrai t of the best sportsman i t wi l l ever be

my lot to See,as Master of the Pytchley Hounds , but

also as the universal friend of the farmers of the hunt.“ I am so pleased to hear your son i s better. I

hope he may soon be restored to perfect heal th. I

should say the visi t to Scotland may help to

strengthen him ; he must have grown past

strength . I hope M rs. T homson and the rest of

your family are quite well .

Shall you be at Atherstone next season ? I

should enj oy a day with your hounds once more.

“Wi th kind regards and many thanks,Bel ieve me to be

,

Yours very truly,

JOHN WOODS.


1 870.—Mr.Wetton ,

the postmaster at N o rthamp

ton,was a capital sportsman ; he had a farm near

N orthampton and a fox cover,where he was always

proud to have a fox. Before I left he made me a

most valuable present—al l the engravings of the

old Sporting M agaz ine.

NORTHAM P TON,Ist March

,1 870.

MY DEAR SIR,

I t gives me very great pleasure to forward

the accompanying set of sporting print s, of which I

beg your acceptance, hoping they wil l afford some

li ttle amusement to the younger members of your

family,whom I have so often admired in the hunting

field.

Hearti ly wi shing you all every conceivab le happi

ness,al low me to remain

,

Yours very faithfully,

GEO. H. WETTON.

J. AN STRUTHER THOM SON , Esq.


CHAPTER II.

ATHERSTONE : TH IRD TIME—THE WELSH HOUNDS.

1 870.—Ou the 20th J anuary Oakeley wrote to

me saying that Curzon had decided to give up the

Atherstone Hounds at the end of the season ; that

he did not wish to leave Cliff or the country,and

that he had offered to take the hounds. He went

on to say,

N othing would please me more than

that you should come here if i t can be managed,and

I would much rather not take the hounds myself. I

enclose you the minutes of the meeting,by which you

wil l see that I am bound and not you,though if you

be come Master you put yourself into my shoes as

long as i t suits you to remain.

”

At a meeting of landowners and the sub

scribe rs to the Atherstone Hounds,held at the Red

Lion Hotel,Atherstone

,T hursday , 1 7 th February ,

1 870. Pre sent : G . Moore,E sq.

,in the chair ;

Viscount Curzon,M .P . ,

Hon. F . Curzon ,Sir George

Chetwynd,Bart W. E . Oakeley, Esq.

, J . Anstruther

T homson,E sq.

,A. Cox

,E sq.

,G . T urner, E sq.

,H .

Blackwood,E sq.

,C. H . Bracebridge , E sq. T he

chairman read the minutes of the last meeting.

“ Mr. Oakeley proceeded to give his deci sion as

to hunting the country,and stated that having con


ferred with Mr. Anstruther T homson ,he agreed to

hunt the Atherstone country in its enti rety,four days

a week for the next three years conj ointly with him

or separately as they may agree,on the understand

ing that the subscriptions be continued as at present.“ Proposed by the Hon. F. Curzon ,

and seconded

by Mr. Moore,that the best thanks of thi s meeting

be given to Mr. Oak eley for the able manner in

which he has performed the duties of secretary to

the Atherstone club for the last eleven years.

(Signed) GEORGE MOORE,

Chairman .

AGREEMENT. We,Wi l l iam Edward Oakeley

and J ohn Anstruther T homson,agree to prov ide a

pack of hounds and hunt the Atherstone country,

the said J . A. T . to hunt the hounds and be absolute

Master. I f he should not be able to procure a house,

or any unforeseen circumstances ari se to prevent his

performing these duties,W. E . Oakeley agrees to

continue to hunt the country. We agree to purchase

a pack of hounds between us,in equal shares. I n

case one party wi shes to reti re before the end of

three seasons,the other to have the refusal of his

share of the hounds,at cost price

,and 5 per cent. per

annum on cost price. At the end of three years

either party to have the option of dividing the

hounds, but in no case is one half to be sold without

having been offered to the other party. T he pro

ceeds of al l hounds sold to be equally divided.

(Signed) J . A. T .


As to hounds buying,Percy Wi l l iams will be

our best commi ssioner,and he won ’ t want an

honorarium ,l ike Walker

,whom we can call in i f

required ; but we should pay P .W.

’

s rai l fare.”

Curzon agreed to let me have Mancetter Manor

house furn i shed for the rest of hi s lease.

Having commenced arrangements for the Atherstone country

,I took a house i n Edinburgh in

Drummond Place.

On 3o th March went wi th Geo . Fenwick to

Duns,and hunted wi th Lord Wemyss ’ Hounds , the

last day they hunted,and back to Edinburgh at

n ight .

On 1 o th Apri l,Borthwick Hal l ; Henry Hope ,

Master,Linli thgow and Sti rl ing Hounds ; Atkinson ,

huntsman . Found a brace of foxes ; the body of

hounds went away with one,and ran into a field ful l

of lambs . One of the hounds kil led a lamb. Four

couple of hounds were left back in the covert running

another fox . I remained with J ack Carter,t rying

to stop them . The other lot checked and al l came

back to the covert. T hey had just begun to run

nicely together when the master gal loped back,and

shouted,

“ Atkinson,stop the hounds ”

. Atkinson

was qui te deaf. He looked at me , but I made no

Sign. The master got in front of him,and again

said,

“Stop the hounds

,

” which was done. He

then rode in to the middle of them,and pointing at

one said,

“ Hang that hound ”

. Atkinson said ,“ Hang him

,si r

,i t couldn ’ t be him

,he’ s the be st

had come up,and the master said ,

Cap

Ilo ch knows which i t was”

. Alec named the

which was immediately seized,and a pai r of

put on him . All the field were si tting on the

le of the wall . A l i ttle feeble voice squeaked

si r,as one of the committee

,obj ect to that

Ie ing hanged”

. I ventured to say,Don ’ t

nk i f you went on hunting the fox you

kil l any more lambs ? ”

T he master turned

and said he was responsible for any damage

ut I was not. I turned round and rode

nd lu cki ly met the Duke of Buccleuch,and

im to intercede for the bound. The resul t

the second whip had a pain in his stomach,

and the hound were sent home in di sgrace .

Hope turned his men out in great style wi th

) reeches. Atkinson was not a dandy. T he

f cub—hunting they killed a fox in a di tch at

In ; Atkinson said ,

“N ow then , Bob ,

jump

bapti se those breeches”

.

going into Moir’ s stables one day I saw two

t ty l i ttle brown horses. J ohnny B rady said,

in,will you buy these two cobs ? ” “What

want for them ? 200. Nonsense ,you more than you gave for them .

“Whatt be ? ” “ Make i t guineas and

e t them . So I bought them , took them

Ind put the girl s on them (“ J asper and

a I sent them with I ris ” to the I sl ington

44 REMIN ISCENCES OF

Horse Show. M i ss M i l lard rode them for me , and

I sold “ J asper for £200.

“ J acinth ” carried a

whipper-in next year, but was not so successful .

I went to B rixworth on 1 8th Ap ril. Oak eley

and I then commenced to get together a pack of

hounds. T he'

Gogerddan hounds,Colonel P ryse ’ s,

in N orth Wales, were for sale , so we commissionedJ ohn Walker, late huntsman to SirWatkin ,

to report

on them . Oakeley afterwards went himself to see

them .

P LAs TANY BWLCH ,

CARNARVON , N .W.,1 3th April.

MY DEAR JACK,

“I saw the Goge rddans on T uesday. I n

the first place,Colonel P ryse

,the master

,18 about

the most varmint,hard-bitten

,good-looking chap

you ever saw in your l i fe,keen about every sport.

He has killed with his hounds in thi s wild country

fifteen and a half brace of foxes,two days a week.

He killed a lot of foxes in the frost,al l the men

being on foot. And now for the hounds. I n condi

t ion , I have seen no pack look l ike them ; they beat

even Quorn,Grove o r Cotswold . T hey have lots

of power,are very straight (as far as I know) with

capi tal ribs and bone,but a small pack. T hey are

very level for a mixed pack. T he biggest dog is under

twenty-three,and the smal lest bitch with one excep

t ion is over twenty-two. T hey seem right in every

way,and no toes down

,general ly good feet

,but a few

with moderate ones. But what wil l you say —ou

principle,not a dew-claw has be en taken off any


REM I N ISCENCES OF

We bought the lot for £2 50,and engaged J im

Edwards as whipper-in.

Colonel Pryse wrote

Of the entry ,I may say I think they will al l

be good. T hose that I have had most luck in

catching foxes or rather being out when foxes were

caught,are : ‘

Lashwo od,

’ wonderful for a puppy ;Lady

,

’ ‘Lavi sh,

’ ‘Lifter,

’ Leader,

’

Ranker,Prim

rose,

’

Rust ic“ I f the others babble a l i ttl e over hares and

rabbits,have a l i ttle patience. I know they wil l

make good hounds with one good cub-hunt ing. Of

the three mentioned,I consider ‘

Rest less’

as fine

a bitch as I have had in for years. T he two dog

hounds are l ikely to make good working hounds.

(Signed) PRYSE ”

.

The huntsman came to Wi therley with the

hounds ; he was a tal l , dark ,si lent man , rather l ike

a gipsy. T he Atherstone people were very curious

to see the hounds, and ask questions about them .

His only answer was ,“T hey wil l catch the fox

Lord Curz on’

s sale of the A therstone hounds

took place on 2 8th Apri l . We bought several lots.

We got drafts from Bramham,Belvoir

,Cotswold

,

F i tzwil l iam ,F i fe

,Grove

,Oakley

,Pytchley

,Quorn

,

Rufford ,Southwold ,

T ailby,Portman. We got

together 1 50 couple ; and then did a good deal of

dog deal ing for some weeks,and reduced them

down to eighty couple.

Lord Curz on’

S hounds had suffered much from


kennel lameness,and the kennel s were decidedly

unhealthy. When the water was high in the riveral l the drains were stopped

,as there was very l i ttle

fal l . We set to work to remedy thi s. We raised

the ben ches four feet from“ the ground

,with a sloping

platform for the hounds to walk up,and were careful

to have the cesspool frequently emptied,which had

the desired effect.

I got possession of Mancetter Manor-house on

2nd August. On 5th August went out to exerci se

with thirty-five couple of bitches in Arbury Park .

J im and I were riding ponies , Stephen ,

“School

boy T he deer kept jumping up among the ferns.

T he hounds behaved pretty well for some time,but

some of the young ones got too far away from me,cocked thei r ears

,and made a bolt after a fawn.

T he old ones stopped for a minute,but hearing the

cry away the whole concern went behind a round

plantation . I galloped round the other side,met

them and succeeded in stopping them the fi rst

time ; but there was such a lot of them that the

stragglers broke away again , and we had three

packs running hard . Stephen was run away with

to the other end of the park ; J im gal loped his

pony to a stand-sti l l . I thought I had better have

one hunt than three,so I blew my horn

,and got

almost al l the hounds together and hunted a doe

into one of the canal s . She was swimming and all

the hounds swimming after her. I jumped off my

pony, ran into the canal , caught the deer , got my

arm round her neck and stopped the hounds . One


of the keepers was standing by ; I gave him hold

of the deer,jumped on my pony and gal loped to

the gate (about 200 yards). I had almost got there

when a hal f-tired doe gal loped in front of me and

rammed her head through the pal ings. The hounds

were all round her,and ki l led her. I got the hounds

all out of the park except three,and they ran another

doe into the lake and drowned it. Stephen got

them and brought them on . T his was about seven

in the morning and we went quietly home . I t was

very hot.

At four in the afternoon we coupled al l the

worst reprobates,and went back to Arbury ; trot ted

them among the deer to let them see them . T here

were some paddocks with high fences for the mares

and foals. I trotted into one of them , shut the gate,and let the men crack into the reprobates till they

dropped their stem s and understood the meaning

of “Ware haunch ”

. I said to Stephen “What wasthat red bi tch that ran at the head of them ? ” He

said,

“ T hat was ‘T idings,’ an Atherstone bitch ;

she has often done i t before ”

.

“ Are not you a

d d fool to let me come among the deer without

tell ing about her ? ” I wrote to Charl ie N ewdegate,

who was in London, and told him what had happened.

He wrote back ,

“ I t was lucky that i t was in my

park

Having laid the foundation of the new Ather

stone pack,I went home to Charleton in June to

attend to my duties as Colonel of F i fe Mounted

Rifles . My first duty was to request that thei r


designation Should be F i fe Light Horse , and that

they Should be armed with breech-l oading carbines .

T hi s alteration was confirmed by the War office .

The 1 3th were quartered at Edinburgh thi s year.

Colonel Jenyns and Valentine Baker had just made

up the “ N on-Pivot Dri ll ”. Jenyns invited me to

bring over some F ife M ounted Volunteers . I took

over about twelve non-commissioned officers. He

gave us lunch at P iershill,mounted us on troop

horses,and had a fie ld—day for our instruction. I

adopted thi s dri l l at once two years before it was

introduced as cavalry dri l l .

The inspection took place at Cupar on the 8th

July ; and M r. Swan,the Provost of K irkcaldy, lent

me Springfield House . Colonel Jenyns and Stanley

Clarke and thei r wives came to stay with us,and

they lent us the band of the i 3th for the week.

The inspection took place on the racecourse

Colonel Bulwer the inspecting officer. We had a

capital bal l and a concert under the leadership of

Lieutenant H . Lindenberg.

On 20th J uly I judged the horses at the

H ighland Society ’s Show at Dumfries, and there was

a committee on horse-shoeing,of which I was the

president. M . Charlier gave a lecture,in French ,

on his system of shoeing,which was translated to

us by P rofessor Wi l l iams. I practi sed Charlier’

s

shoeing for many years,and found it of great service

wi th horses with hard feet and narrow heel s.

Lord Craven was very kind to us, and al lowed

me during cub-hunting to send al l the horses to hi sVOL. 11. 4


stables at Coombe. J ack and I al so went to stay

there,and in the eveni ngs we assisted Lady Craven

to tear up rags to make “ charpie ” for the wounded

soldiers in the F ranco-German War. We sent the

hounds to Cryers Farm at H igh Wood,and put

them into a cattle shed, but that was not a success,for i t was damp under the straw and most of them

were taken i l l .

Walker wished to know how the Wel sh houndsturned out

,so I wrote asking him to come to

Mancetter, and I would mount him . We had only

a small house ,and no housekeeper

’

s room,so we

invi ted him to dine with us. He was most amusing

and agreeable,and hi s manners most pol i te and

gentlemanl ike. I t happened to be at the time when

Mr. Chaplin gave up the mastership of the B lank

ney Hounds. I n the course of conversation M rs.

T homson said,I see in the papers that Mr. Chaplin

has given up the mastership , but they wi l l always

have his best wishes ” Al low me to remark,madam

,that good wishes wil l not maintain hounds

and ’osses,was Walker’s reply.

N ext day we went to Rugby and hunted with

the N orth Warwickshi re. J ohn Darby mounted us

both. He asked me if I had any objection to meet

Frank Beers at dinner. I was del ighted to do so ;he joined the party

,and after dinnerWalker retu rned

home.

We had pretty good sport al l through the season

and hunted on foot during the frost . On grd March

I was riding “ Comus ”. He was very fresh and


plunged awful,and strained my groin. I could not

get my second horse,and “ Comus ” was taken i l l

and died a few days after.

At the end of the season , 6 th Apri l,Hugo

M eynel l gave us a day at Bago t’

s Park with the

Atherstone Hounds. J ack and I went and stayed

with him at Cross Hays. The hounds and horses

came in the morning by train to Rugeley station ;Mr. and Mrs. Oake ley,

and a lot of people . I t was

ve ry dry and very l i ttle scent. I sent Morris on to

the end of the wood,and when I began to draw heard

him hol loa ; got up to him directly and hunted

steadily up nearly to Chartl ey. I ought to have

gone on with it. Went back to Great Wood andfound another fox

,and ran to ground . I took the

hounds away two fields off. T urner,Lord Bago t

’

s

keeper,put a terrier into the drain

,and a beastly

l ittl e vixen fox ran bang into the hounds ’ mouth. I t

was most unfortunate,and we al l went home very

dej ected.

Hugo was very i l l at the time,and died at the

end of May. Bob Harper and I attended the

funeral,and a very sad one it was.

1 87 1 .—T he last day of the season was unfortu

nate. On going to draw Hartshi l l Hayes the hounds

had just got into the covert when the keeper ran up

and said,

“ Don ’ t go there,I have got my traps

down ”

. I t was too late. As I rode down the ride

I noticed the hounds pick something off the twigs

at the side of the rides. We had just got into the

road, luckily near home, when some of them began4

ah


to stagger. F rantic died on the spot : Modish

as soon as we got home,and Racer soon after

Bacchanal was very i l l,and others were taken ill.

Stephen Dickens left at end Of season and went

to N orth Staffordshire. He was a most respectable

man,a capi tal horseman and useful on the field

, but

he had a very weak voice and was not much use

as kennel huntsman— he had begun in a bad school .

J im Edwards,the Wel shman , was no use in the

Shi res. He never could get out of the crowd .

Apparently he left before the end of the season,for

Morri s was whipping—in the latter part of i t.My groin was very painful , and the Atherstone

doctor said I was ruptured . I went to London to

see Sir Henry T hompson . He said ,“ I f you rest

you wi ll get wel l , and if you go on riding you

won ’ t T here was only one day more to the end of

the season,and I got al l right with rest .

I87 I .—F i fe Light Horse assembled for dril l at

Cupar on i l th July. Chandy Pole came to stay

with us,and brought hi s yeomanry uniform . Charl ie

was al so in the ranks. During the dri l l week my

boy had a very bad cough . He rode a horse,

I vanhoe,

” which was a pretty hard puller,and tired

him .

On I3th J uly, the night of the Light Horse b all ,J ack said he was ti red and would go home. We

were staying in George Pagan ’s house. I went with

him . Whi le he was undressing he began to spit

blood. I ran back to the ball -room and got Dr.

Dewar went to Caw the chemist and got lead p ills.



Al so to be let,furnished

,for s ix months ,

the Manor—house , Mancetter. Apply to Mr. Pye,Wi therley Kennels

, Atherstone . T he horses may

be seen at the kennels,Atherstone , on T hursday ,

i 2 th October,I made over most of the servants ’ horses to

Oake ley at cost price. J im Bai ley,huntsman ; Wi l l

N evard,whip.

Among the lot was a horse called Marmion,which Oake ley bought from Henry Hope. He was

a restive horse,and made a l ittle noi se ; was very

good- l ooking. Lord Vivian had helped me in the

sale, and when Marmion had got up to his reserve

I turned away. Presently Vivian came to me and

said,

“ I ’ve been trying al l day to buy one of your

horses , and I’ve got one at last ”. I ran up to Oak e ley,

who was in the gal lery,and said What shal l we do ?

Vivian has bought Marmion The fi rst thing to

do was to tel l him that the horse made a noise and

then we agreed that he Should keep him at half price.

Vivian sent the horse down to Glyn , his place in

Cornwal l . One day on going to exercise the man

hit him on the Shoulder with a switch. The horse

ran away up the hi l l,and stopped with his head over

a high gate,turned round

,and ran away again .

T here was a sharp turn in the road and a ravine

fi l l ed with evergreens. T he horse jumped at the

corner and fel l in among the evergreens. T hey

found the horse at the bottom unhurt,without the

saddle,and the man stone dead . I t i s supposed

that he had struck against a tree.1

and a very hard pul ler. He used to

s a field ; when he got near the fence ,always to the left side), and run awaythe field I used to ride him with a

on the curb on the off side,and rode

rs at the fences,so that when he turned

3 head was straight for the fence . He

a mistake at the fences and could jump

e could carry any weight,and was the

' se in hindquarters that I ever had. He

.e t in the stable , but very high couraged,

o t bear being touched with a whip.

ling him one day in the forest when he

uble some . T om Percival of Wansfordwere you I wouldn

’

t be bothered with

my longer I said,

“Wai t a bit ”. I t

i rs to get h im quiet,and I should never

ded had it not been for the care J ohn

ding him during the summer.

e serious fight with him,and he beat me.

:k was hunting the hounds . T hey ran

5 country. I was jumping a brook,not

gap with a broken-down hedge on the

J ust as I was jumping Nat Langham

iefo re me. I ri s ” jumped on to the

root and fell on to hi s knees. As soon

he turned round and jumped back to


the same side. He did thi s over and over again , do

what I would or could. T he hounds ran away and

I remained. I tried over and over again ; he was

covered with foam and roared l ike a bul l wi th rage.

He fel l back into the brook with me four times and

wet me through,but he always jumped up again

wi thout my getting off. He would always jump

over,but would not go a step further. He was in

such a state of fury,exhaustion and fever that I

thought he would die,so I desi sted. I took my

knife and scraped him al l over,put on my overcoat

,

for I was covered with mud,waited ti l l he got calm

,

and then got on and walked quiet ly towards home,

about fourteen miles. When he got cool I turnedinto a field

,cantered across i t

,and jumped the fence

at the end , and across two or three fences quite

nicely. I go t to Sulby, put him in the stable for

a few minutes, and went into the house . Lady

E l i zabeth Vi l l iers gave me a cup of tea and we

j ogged home quite pleasantly, and we never

quarrel led again.

“ I ri s was bought by Mr. P adwick for his son

at the sale of the Pytchley horses. After the sale

he came to me and said ,“ I don ’ t know if he wi l l

suit my son . I f not , I wi l l give you the refusal of

him to get him back . He had been sold for 385guineas. A few days after, on the i 8th

,I had a

letter from Mr. Edmund T attersal l saying,

I ri s ’

wil l not suit Mr. P adwick . Come up and get your

old favouri te back.

”

T he letter had been mis

directed and had missed one post . I go t into the


train ; went straight to M r. P adw ick’

s house ; he

was not at home ; went‘to the stable

,and asked

where I ri s ” was. He has just gone away ; he i s

sold.

” “Who to ? “ M r. J ohn Leigh at Luton .

”

I was going down to Luton a few days after to

judge the puppies,and on going round the stables

saw “ I ri s ” with al l the hai r cl ipped offhi s forelegs .

I said to the groom,What are you going to do

to He said,

“We are going to fire him

to-morrow “What for ? ” “T o strengthen his

j oints.”

The hunt horses were a pi tiful sight , many

of them having been recently fi red .

I n the afternoon M r. Leigh dro ve me round the

park to see the cattle. I asked him to let me have3,I ri s back again . He said

,

“ I must have a

l i ttle time to consider, but I gave P adwick more

for him than he gave you I said,

“Whateveryou gave him

,I wil l gi ve you He said

,I gave

him

During the day I had a deal of talk with Mr.

Leigh’

s brothers and others about “ I ri s,

” and told

them that he was a diffi cult horse to ride,and about

hi s refusing a brook with me. T om Leigh laughed,

and said , Oh,he won ’ t sui t J ohn ”

N ext day I got a letter saying that I might have

him . I sent J ohn Pye to fetch him,and he never

was fi red . On the 7 th June I sent J ohn Leigh a

cheque for £500. I was anxious to get him back ,

for my testimonial friends had decided that my

portrai t should be painted on I ri s ” .

After Sir F ranci s Grant had fini shed his picture

pri ze. ri e went St raignt Irom C nari e t o n t o m e 5 1

and was not looking wel l . Sir Watkin VVy:“Speculation was fi rst

,but I ris ” was the be

horse of the two.

Next season I took the Atherstone Hound

partnership with Mr. Oak e ley. One day at I

worth I ri s got staked,but not badly. I ag

sent him to I sl ington and got first prize. He

got the first prize at Peterborough and We tht

shows.“The fol lowing autumn I had to gi ve up a

the cub-hunting season,and again had a salt

T attersal l ’s. I ri s ” was again sold for £380.

was lame at the time,having been pricked

shoeing. He was bought by Mr. T homas . I

that I would del iver him sound,and of con

i ntended to keep him ti l l he was sound. On gc

to the stable I found that he was al ready taken av

Mr. T homas had him examined by a vet.,who

that he had many maladies. However, he sent

home to South Wales.

CORDRIGLAN , CARD IFF.

2 3rd October, 1 870.

DEAR SIR,

“ I bought , at your sale at T attersal l’

s

Monday last , your horse I ri s ’

At the time of

he was lame , and you know Edmund Tatte i

warranted him sound verbal ly, and you said at


same time ‘you would warrant him sound ’

. He i s

still l ame,and I have had him examined by South

of Bond Street , who did not give a very sati sfactory

certificate. I have now got the horse down here,

and this morning have had him examined by our

local vet. , who says that‘at present he cannot say

whether the horse wil l be permanently lame or not ’

.

I write to ask you,therefore

,how we stand. Do

you sti l l consider yoursel f l iable to have him returned

I must tel l you candidly I am extremely fond of the

horse,and would not part with him for any consider

ation,and if I thought i t was only a ‘brui se ’ in his

foot I would not trouble you any further. I heard

you say ‘he had never been lame before ’

. Wouldyou obl ige me with a l ine stating your opinion of the

horse ’s lameness,and from what cause

,and if you

consider him returnable as unsound ?

I bel ieve I ri s ’ was a great favourite of yours.

Be assured that he has fal len into good hands.

Bel ieve me,

Yours very faithful ly

GEORGE T HOMAS.

I repl ied

MANCETTER MANOR, ATHERSTONE,“2 6th October, 1 870.

DEAR SIR,“ I received your letter last night on my

return home,and I happened to be in T attersal l

’

s

office when Mr. Pain opened your letter on Monday.

I am not surpri sed to hear that ‘ I r i s’

i s not yet

sound,as i t must take some time for hi s foot to


grow. I don ’t know if I am bound to take him back,

but I am quite wil l ing to do so if you wish it,and

there i s not another hunter l ike him in England.

According to my intention and the terms of my

warranty he should never have left my possession

ti l l he was sound . I said I would warrant him

Sound and deliver him sound,and I expected that

whoever got him would have spoken to me on the

subject. I intended to take him home,and as soon

as he was sound write to whoever bought h im to

send thei r V .S. and sati sfy themselves as to hi s

soundness. The moment the sale was over I went

to the stable to ask who had got him,but I found he

was gone,and I could not find whe re

,and by your

taking him away you prevented me from del ivering

him sound as I intended .

“ I have no doubt about hi s getting sound,but

every time you Show him to a V .S. who gives a

certificate of unsoundness you detract from his value,

and if they remove his shoe and pare his foot for

thei r own information,it wil l take more time to get

him sound than I anticipated.

“ I don ’ t want him back,for I dou ’ t know what

on earth to do w ith him at T orquay,where I go

next week ; but i f you wish to get rid of him ,and

wil l put him into my stables no worse than when

you bought him,T attersal l

’

s Shal l return your

cheque.

“ I wil l tell you al l about him that you may

judge of his previous soundness . I got him four

years old . The first season I had him we had a



driven too close and his foot too much pared down.

When hi s shoe was again put on he was quite sound.

I rode him on the T hursday,and he never went

better. I al so gave Lord Wenlock a ride on him ,

and he wanted to buy him on the spot ! I rode

alongside of him from the station to T attersal l ’s and

he was sound then,and he was sound on Saturday

morning,but he began to go short on Saturday

afternoon . On Monday his shoe was removed,and

he went worse than before ; and you know what has

been done with him Since.

“ I t is a very long story,but now you know all

about i t,and I am wil ling to do anything you like.

Only please gi ve me as long warning as you can if you

intend to send him back,as I have to go to Scotland

on F riday to take my family to T orquay next week.

I sent J ohn Pye down to bring the horse back or

a cheque.

CORDRIGLAN , CARD IFF,grd November, 1 870.

MY DEAR SIR,

“ J ohn Pye has been with me thi s morning,

and he wil l tel l you what passed. I have wri tten

to-day to Messrs. T attersal l to tel l them to send you

cheque for ‘ I ri s,

’ as I intend keeping him . I regret

that you should have had trouble in this matter.

I n great haste,Bel ieve me,

Yours very truly,

“ GEORGE T HOMAS.

J. AN STRUTHER THOMSON, Esq.


N ext year I saw him at the horse Show at

I sl ington. Mr. T homas sent him ,not knowing that

he could not compete,having already won the first

prize. An elderly man in a l ivery coat was riding

him . T hey asked him to have a jump. When hegot near the fence his rider rai sed his hand with a

Switch in i t. “ I ri s ” nipped round,jumped the

barrier over the heads of the Spectators,hit hi s head

against one of the i ron posts which support the

gal lery,which knocked him down and spread al l the

spectators in every di rection. He was then sent

back to hi s box and no more seen. T hat was the

last time I saw him .

CHAPTER I I I .

TORQ UAY AND JACK RUSSELL .

I TOOK a house at T orquay, St. M ichael

’ s,close to

the station . T he Fortescues l ived at Oxton , just

up above us. We went there on i 8th N ovember,

1 87 1 .

I received the following from George WhyteMelvi l le

“2 2 ON SLow GARDENS, LONDON ,

1 7 th November,1 87 1 .

MY DEAR JACK,

“ I have been writing a hunting song for

Bailey’

s M agaz ine for a honndsman ,as poor Sutton

used to say. May I dedicate it to you ? I send you

a proof in case you should think i t too rotten.

Ever yours very truly,

G . J . WHYTE-MELVILLE.

P .S.

— I helped to hunt a deer yesterday for

three hours. He ran some ten miles,but the

country was light,and the pace parl iamentary.

”

I repl ied that I should be very proud,but did

not approve of two expressions. “ You cheer‘Bachelor ’ with ‘

Yo—ge -ote ’ in Walker ’ s hound


language and in mine that means ‘Stop ’

; and

bounds have ‘broth ’ not ‘soup ’

2 2nd November, 1 87 1 .

MY DEAR JACK,

Many thanks for corrections to the ditty

great autho rs di ffer in al l sc iences,as in h i story. I

think,but wil l not be sure

,that The D iary of a

H untsman in its vocabulary gives Yo—ge -ote,

’ ‘T ry

here again Apperley N imrod ’

) makes Osbaldis

ton,in the famous Q uarter ly R eview run

,cheer a

hound that hits off the l ine with,

‘Yo do it,Pastime

,

’

as she feathers her stern down a hedgerow. But I

do not consider him so trustworthy as yoursel f,who

are second only to the o riginal ‘N imrod,

’ inasmuch

as the whole of hi s country between the rivers must

have carried a worse scent than Harleston Heath

i tself. 1

The ‘soup ’ I cannot do without,on account

of the rhyme ; and you must remember Jorro ck s’

reply to the churchwardens when they indicted him

for a nuisance,and asked him why he stacked dead

horses : ‘Soup , soup

’

. You see how wel l I have

got up my derivations . As soon as the wind blows

from the south,and the frost goes , I am due in

Dorsetshi re .

Yours ever,

“ G . J . WHYTE-MELV ILLE.

1 A bad scenting co vert in th e P ytch l ey country.

VOL. II.


THE KING OF THE KENNEL .

D edicated to fohn Anstruther Thomson,Esq. , by G . Whyte-Melville.

Clara fuga, ante al ios, et primus in aequore pulvis.

Th e Sire from the Be lvo ir, the dam from the Q uorn,Th e p ick of the ir l itter our pup py was b ornAnd the day h e was entered h e fl ew to the horn,

But rating and whipcord he treated with scorn.

Gent ly, Bache l o r !Have a care ! Have a care

So eage r to find, and so gal lant to draw ,

T hough a wilder in co vert a huntsman ne’

e r saw ,

’

Twas a year and a halfere he ’

d l isten to law ,

And many’

s the l e veret hung out ofhis maw .

’Ware hare , Bache lor !’Ware hare !

’Ware hare

On the straighte st of legs and the rounde st offe e t,

With rib s l ike a frigate his timb ers to m e e t ,

With a fashion and fl ing and a fo rm SO com p l e te ,That to se e him dance over the flags is a treat I

He re,h ere , b oy Bache lo r

Handsom e and good

But fash ion and fo rm without nose are in vain ,

And in March o r m id-winter, storm , sunshine and rain,Wh en the l ine has b e en fo iled, o r the she e p l eave a stain,

H is fox he accounts fo r again and again.

Yoo i Wind h im,Bache lor,

All through the wo od

He guide s them in co vert, he l eads them in chase ,

Though the young and the j ealous try hard fo r h is p lace’Tis Bache lor always is first in the race

He b eats them for no se , and h e b eats them for pace .

Hark forward to Bache lo rFrom dayl ight to dark

Where the fal lows are dry, where manure has b een thrown,With a storm in the air, with the ground l ike a stone ,

When we ’re all in a muddle , beat , baffled, and b lown,Sec ! Bache lor has it ! Bi l l , le t h im alone !

Sp eak to it , Bache lor !Go hark to him ! Hark !


That time in December—the b est ofour funNot a m ile from the gorse , e

'

re we’d hard ly b egun ,

Heading straight to the river—I thought w e we re doneBut

’

twas Bache lor’s courage that made it a run.

Yo o i o ve r, Bache lor !Yoo i o ver, o ld man

As fierce as a torrent, as ful l as a tank ,That a hound e ver cro ssed it his stars he may thank lWh ile I watched how poor Benedict struggled and sank ,There was Bache lor shak ing his sides on the bank.

Forward on, Bache lorCatch ye who can I

From the find to the finish , the who l e b le ssed day,How he cut out the work ! how he showed us the way !When our fox doub l ed back where the fal low-de er lay,How he stuck to the l ine , and turned sho rt with h is prey !

Yo i-yoo ite , Bach e l o r !Right, for a crown

Though so handy to cast, and so patient to sto op ,He

’ l l dash at h is fox l ike a hawk in her swoo pWhen h is b rist le s are up you may swear it’s who-who o pAnd h e carrie s the h ead marching hom e to his soup 1

Sess l Se ss Bache lor !Lap and lie down.

J ack was better,and we got out hunting some

times quietly. He passed a good deal of hi s time

at Glynn with the Vyvians, who were very kind to

him.

I used to go out hunting with Mr. T relawny ,

and Often went to I vybridge. Wi l l Boxall washuntsman ; Dick Yeo, whipper-in. The terriers

were carried in panniers on a pony ridden by a

boy,Fred Back

,who afterwards was huntsman to

Mr. Calmady at T etcott. I bought “ Bachelor ,”

a

brown horse,from P e ttrick (Pedrick) at E xeter for

£90, and J ohn Darby sent me “ Benedict,

” a good5i


match for him . He al so sent me a beautiful chest

nut thoroughbred horse,

“Sarchedon

,

” but he had

a big knee and sometimes went lame.

We stayed a few days at the hotel at Penzance .

Western Hounds met at Logan Rock on 8th March ,

1 87 2 . Rained torrents ti l l 1 2 o ’clock. A nice useful

pack,rather smal l hounds looked wel l

,very handy

and very sensible drew the rocks wonderful ly wel l ,creeping into every hole and cl imbing l ike squi rrels

(Lord Portsmouth ’ s drafts chiefly). T he huntsman,

named T homson,a Yorkshi reman

,a good-looking

,

very l i tt le fel low,with blue eyes and a long nose ;

stoops very much and ful l of action,both legs and

arms never quiet for a moment on a l i ttle wel l-bred

horse with snaffle bridle. He trotted to the edge of

a precipi ce and craned over in a way to make your

hai r stand on end . H is coat sleeves were very loose

and his arms waving,and he always looked as if he

would fly away. He has a good voice and good

hound language,but the wind and waves make such

a row a man’

s voice is not heard far. He was very

active on foot and ran l ike a lamplighter. H e hunted

Mr. Morgan ’ s hounds near Ab e rystw ith ,and before

that was with Sir E . Kerrison .

The field consisted of five Mr. Boli thos, Reginald

T relawny and his son. J ack rode a bay mare that

went i n the carriage belonging to the hotel . I rode

a black mare of Richard ’ s (the fly man). She was

drawing a cartload of oats the day before. She

was a capital fencer.

When we go t to them they were drawing the


70 REM INISCENCES OF

I vybridge on brown horse ; thick fog and torrents

of rain ; sat shivering for an hour. My horse was

so cold he wished to l ie down : at last trotted off

to Cleve. Cleared about one o clock ; trotted back

to Rutts Brake.

A useful,boney

,dil igent pack of hounds ; plenty

of tongu e. N ineteen and a hal f couple. Babbage

rode a rat-tai led slow horse in the morning. Whenthey went on the moor the squi re gave him his second

horse,a nice bay mare

,and unfortunately She broke

down. Limp e tty,T relawny

’

s old huntsman,rode

hi s second horse,a Short bob-tai led I ri sh-looking

black. Wi l l iams’ own horses very clever.I went to Luke sland

,Colonel Granvil le ’ s

,to dine

and Sleep. George Wi l l iams,Henry Wi l l iams ,

Edward Wi l l iams,Robbins Forster

,Sydney

,Davy

and T ucker were out. Mr. Lamb now l ives at I vy

bridge a good sporting lot.

Mr. T relawny’

s hounds at Brent Station. Wenton with Colonel and Mrs. Granvi l le , Sir Chas.

Staveley,Mr. St. Aubyn and Mr. Calmady. Rode

Mr.Widbo rne ’

s mare,

“ Al ice Grey A fine morn

ing,found on Brent H i l l

,got away directly and ran

to Bloodyp oo l Brake ; got to ground in the drain ;put the terrier in and bolted a brace.

Annen,Sir W. Carew

’

s keeper,was holding

Dick ’ s horse,he being on foot in the covert. When

the fox went away he ran off and took the horse

with him. Boxall started with four couple,Dick

running after hi s horse. I turned back and found

the rest running a fox at the other end of the covert ;


stopped them and set off after Boxall. But some

hounds left behind threw thei r tongues and my lot

broke away again. T he fox had gone away and

they ran as hard as they could go. I could not get

over the fence,and had to go to the gate and could

not catch them,I got into a lane after gal loping about

seven fields,found I was before them

,went back

and found they had kil l ed on Stranger’ s Rocks , a

heap of stones. I cut off the brush,chucked her up

,

picked up the head and trotted after the field. I

said,

I must tel l you what I have done,squi re

,in

case you should think I have been poaching”

. He

was quite pleased.

Found in Dowland Brake,fox had gone ; two

hounds flashed on and the boy stopped them . A

single hound got away and the usual splutter com

menced ; up a very steep hil l ; ran on to the river

and checked among some stones opposite an engine

Boxall held them up the next hi l l and got a l ine on

the top (said to be a fresh fox) ; set to and ran hardand crossed the river again. Mr. Bowden ,

Dick Yeo ,M i ss Bulteel, myself and M r. Lamb nearest the

hound s. Many of the field had never crossed the

river and nicked in again . On the top of the hil l

hounds overran the l ine or were driven off i t. A

hound on my left hit i t off I whistled and Dick put

them on heel way ; Rendel l and I stopped them .

J ust then Hole and Parker viewed a fox over the

next bog ; carried the hounds right on to i t , and ran

very fast ti l l we got to some beastl y bogs on the

side of a hil l with a brook at the bottom. Dick ,


M i ss Bultee l,a man in black

,myself and T ucker

crossed at once,the rest going on above

the bog,led by Calmady,

Bowden,etc. Hounds

got out of our Sight. On getting to top of the hil l

saw them near the river,Calmady

’

s white horse,

Dick and M i ss Bultee l having got to them . We

were down wind and the turn towards us ; gal loped

down to Dartmoor B ridge Road,near Holne

,and

stood stil l ti l l they came to us and ran the road

towards Holne ; I being first crossed the road and

ran on to the edge of the moor.

Boxall hunted the l ine into the vi l lage but never

could get out. N ext day we were told the fox

came out of the farm-buildings . About one hour ;a real good run . Mr. Wildb o rne ’

s mare carried me

capital ly and no sign of surrender. After the hounds

got free of the horses,they ran wel l

,but are very

sil ent. N 0 one went better than M i ss Bulte e l on a

grey pony ; Dick Yeo’

s mare carried him capital ly ;about fifteen miles home .

One day with M r. T re lawny’

s hounds we had a

good run —forty minutes— and ran a fox to ground.

I n the middle of the moor I looked at my watch .

On the way home I saw Colonel Granvi l le standing

on the top of a l i ttle hi l l . On gal loping to meet

him,my horse p e ek ed over a big stone and I nearly

tumbled over his head. On getting near the rai l

road station one of the chi ldren asked me,

“Whato ’clock ? I fel t

,and said

,

“ By J ove ! I ’ve lost mywatch ! I turned round and gal loped back to the

moor (about four miles) to where Colonel Granvi l le


had been standing, go t the print of my ho rse

’ s feet,

and walked on spooring heel way,

” and picked up

my watch.

187 2 .—In the beginning Of J anuary I went up

to Atherstone for a few days,and wrote a report of

the proceedings to my boy at T orquay.

“CL IFF,

MONDAY, 1 5th january , 1 87 2 .

MY DEAR JACK,

Pretty hard frost this morning ; met at

Red Gate. I rode an old horse of N ewdegate’

s and

a thoroughbred mare of Harry Bouche re tt’

s ; l ots

of people out. Found in a l ittle square co ver near

Lindley House which we drew in the frost ; ran

in to Lindley Gorse. T hree foxes came in ,out at

top end and up to Amb ion . I cut on and viewed

h im away before the hounds got in ; ran up to

Stapleton Rough and lost him ; went on to K irkby

and got on him again,and fresh found him ran to

Stapleton vi l lage and back fast to Amb ion. Here

we had seven or eight on foot,and changed and

ho lload for a long time— so l ong that I ate bread

and cheese and sat at the fi re in old Bradfie ld’

s

house —and at last came away towards Bosworth ,and stopped the hounds on account o fSir A . Dixie

’s

death .

“We came down to the brook Where I tumbled

in with ‘Whalebone ’ last year. Charl ie N ewde

gate told me the mare would not j ump water,so of

course I expected to tumble in again,but I did not.

Bai ley funked it and positively stopped,and Wi l l

REMINISCENcES oF

and I had to stop the hounds. We then found at

five minutes to four in Sibson Wolds,and ran a

ring over We lsb o rough H i l l to Congerstone,and

stopped in the dark. Hounds too fat ; Bai ley

hol loas too much and cannot r ide as wel l as I

expected. I shal l go with the Pytchley on Wednes

day,and have telegraphed to J ohn Darby to mount

me . Baxter was out to-day on his grey horse,

which i s much improved,and he looked very t e

sp e ctab le . Bob Harper was the greatest swel l out,

with a new black coat,blue bird ’s-eye neck cl oth

,

a bouquet,and faultless boots and breeches . I am

going to lunch with him to-morrow. B lackwood was

out with his wife in the pony carriage. T hey dine

here tod ay,and Donkey Perkins and the Admiral .

I think I have spun my yarn now“ Your aff. father

,

J . ANSTRUTHER T HOMSON .

Old Dick has a cold and is rather seedy.

Young Dick very fat,and his breeches so tight

i t must be a Struggle to get out of them.

”

Rev . J ack Russel l was staying with us at

T orquay. I wished to see the staghounds on

E xmoor,so he wrote to the master

,Fenwick Bi sset.

He repl iedBAGBOROUGH , TAUNTON ,

t 6th january , 1 87 2 .

MY DEAR RUSSELL ,

”

“ I can’ t understand any sane man (unless

he l ives at Oare or Simonsbath, where he can turn

into hi s snuggery at any moment and leave the

COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMsoN 75

hounds to get home as they best can) wishing to

ride over Exmoor Forest at thi s time of year. And

i f you had been at Cloutsham one quarter as often

as I have been since stag-hunting, and knew how

almost impossible i t i s to get one of those infernal

hinds away, you would scarcely try to take J ack

T homson there by way of seeing a run over the

moor. Besides,I don’ t l ike having special meets in

that country for my friends, i f I do not l ikewise

have them when asked by my sti l l better friends

the farmers. I t i s no use going to Cloutsham for

T homson or any one el se. I t ’ s twenty to one

against getting a hind away,and if you do

,what

pleasure can there be in riding over that country as

i t i s now ? N ow,please

,be sati sfied with Winsford

H i l l . I have just come home after ki l l ing a young

hind which had gone to sea below Q uantox Head.

T hat makes three deer up here ki l led in seven days

of infernal weather and bad luck,and the hounds

wi l l go home on Saturday nex t,meeting at M iddle

H ill on Thursday. N ext week,Tuesday wil l be

Haddon ,and F riday M ountsey H ill Gate. J ohn

wi l l not return with them,but T homson i s welcome

to ride any of my horses,and

,i f you l ike to take him

to Rhyl l,the place i s at your service , no tw ith

standing Bel lew ’ s notice to quit.“ Yours sincerely

,

“W. FENWICK B ISSET .

I f you intend to go to Rhyl l write in good time.

I fT homson wil l ride one of my horses write to Payne.

”

Iay, 14th March .—Ho o Meavy Mr.

hounds at M r. Deacon ’ s house. Rode

Io rse from Luk e sland with Calmady ; a

morn ing. Brunskil l and young Arthur

rto o k us at Carnw o od met Babbage and

go t on to M r. Scob e ll’

s house . Calmady

our horses in the others went on,hounds

me on,and drew two coverts before we

m .

i in, del icate-l ooking old men ,twin brothers

,

vo years old,with white hai r

,very gentle

tous in manner,red cut-away coats

,white

ck boots,caps and gloves

,most respect

nothing slang about them . T hey are so

can hardly tel l them apart,and both

In l ow,wel l—bred bay horses. T he hunts

good voice and a cheery view-hol loa and

b ed horn,rather squeaky. He i s a good

Is are smal l and l ight many l ight-coloured

Ig them don ’ t look high—bred fox-hounds ;.rp noses , and feathery on the i r stem s and

Very close hunters and,l ike al l hounds

ed—in,as obstinate as mule s

,

‘

and take no

anybody except the master. T hey are

l obedient to him ,and go through coverts

d don’

t stop behind.

.ang assists on foot. He i s 6 ft. 2 in . high

in proportion . H e stands on the o p

and telegraphs. One day,the master not

was mounted and by good luck kil led a



swearing to every step ; hunted i t away at the top

and began to mend in pace over the top of R ing

T o r. The Others went to the left ; I went down

wind and over the top and came opposite a gate in

a moor wal l and got away again alone ; had good

gal loping to Merivale B ridge. T here I was in the

same field with them and pul led a shoe off in a

boggy place. I stopped and walked back and

picked up my shoe before Colonel Radcl iffe came

up ; hounds then going up the opposite hil l. I

showed him where to go,and went to look for a

smith. T relawny and rest came up on the road .

N o smith within two mile s. I borrowed a hammer

and tacked on the shoe,but could not clench i t, and

it came off again. Hole and Parker came up they

all had gone too far on the T avi stock road and

gal loped nearly to Peter T avy. Colonel Radcl iffe

turned with the hounds between Cogh T or and

Rose T or and ran the fox to ground in M i st T o r. I

got my shoe on near T avistock and went back to

Merivale Bridge. I t was beginning to get dark,

and I heard old Leamon blowing on M i st T or with

the hounds. He was seven hounds short ; he said ,Brother wi l l bring them home ”

. I waited for him,

and he showed me the way by Waukhamp ton,

She ep to r, Ringmo o r Down , Be liver Bridge , Corn

Wood. I got to I vybridge at Biddicomb,

Luke sland, Calmady and al l the others

did not get away, and went home.

The two Mr. Leamons were wonderful men,and

I should th ink no one eve r kept foxhounds for so


l i ttl e money. T hey did most of their own kennel

work,and one morning, when both were old men , they

arrived at a fixture with the pack some fifteen mi les

from the kennel punctual ly at eleven o’clock. T he

owner of the house where the meet was went out and

said,

“Why,Mr. Leamon

,you are here to a minute ,

after your long ride ” “ Yes,we were up early this

morning,kil led and skinned a horse

,l i t the copper fire

and got everything ready for feeding on our return .

When past Si xty years of age,one night after

hunting one of them said to the other,I have been

thinking neither of us can have much longer to

l ive in thi s world,and it wil l be a terrible thing for

the survivor to have to remain here alone. Don ’ t

you think one of us ought to marry ? ” “ Yes,was

the reply,

“ I have thought so for a long time .

”

“Wel l , do you know of any lady ? ” “ Yes,I do.

I s there any one you fancy ? ” On comparing notes

it appeared they had both selected the same woman,

the manageress of the hotel at Okehampton .

“Wel l ,”

said one ,“ we have l ived together al l these years

without a wry word,and it’s a pity we should

fal l out at our time of l ife. So they tossed up

which should marry her. T he winner rode down to

Okehampton next morning , and was accepted. All

three l ived together,and the wife nursed both

brothers in their last i l lness,was left their money

,

and is, I bel ieve , al ive now,as she was only about

thirty years of age when this happened .

An account of the I vybridge Hunt dinner

Once a year the veteran M .E H . ,Mr. Charles


T relawny,i s j oined by the friends of Four Burrow

Hunt in hunting the moor about I vybridge for a

week. T he gathering for 1 87 2 has been celebrated

thi s week. T he dinner was held at Mal let’ s London

Hotel , I vybridge . T he company included al l’

th e

most noted foxhunters of the two counties, and

they chose for their president Mr. W. Horndon ,who had on his right Mr. C . T relawny ,

Captain

Anstruther T homson (late Master of the Pytchley

Hunt) and Colonel Coryton ; and on the left Mr.

GeorgeWi l l iams (Master of the Four Burrow Hunt)and Mr. Edward Scob ell. T he vice-chai r was fi l led

by M r. W. F . Col l ier.

T he chairman gave ‘Fox-hunting

,and the health

of Mr. T relawny ’

T hei r worthy master had for

th i rty years been the author of innumerable days

of pleasure and diversion to a vast number of people,and secured to them al l those advantages which

attached to the hunting-fie ld. His name was held

in reverence al l over the country,and al though

they were remote from the ari stocratic fox—hunting

districts, nowhere was the sport fol lowed with more

enthusiasm . T owards thei r worthy master they al l

had the warmest possibl e feel ings.

Mr. T relawny was received with the most

enthusiastic cheering, and said he real ly felt, as he

did always on these occasions , del ighted and ex

ce edingly obl iged to them for the hearty,cheery

manner in which they were so kind as to drink his

heal th . I t told him that never, with al l the per

p le xitie s of hi s position , had he se riously hurt any


man ’ s feel ings. T hey now had with them one whom

they felt proud to have in their company—a man of

mark in al l England,Captain Anstruthe r T homson

,

who , although coming from the plain country of

Leicester,had got over the rough country of Dart

moor in the cleve rest manner, always to the front

ready to assi st the hounds. He therefore begged

them to drink that gentleman ’ s heal th .

“ Captain T homson,in responding, said :

‘Al

though I confess that I left the great grass fields and

the flying fences of the midland counties with great

regret, I congratulate mysel f very much that my

lot has fal len among so many kind friends and good

sportsmen . I have renewed many old acquaintances

and made many new friends ; I have added some

what to my stock of fox-hunting knowledge,and I

have seen many men and many things which you

can only see in the western counties. F i rst of al l,

I have seen my dear old friend,J ack Russel l

,whose

absence to-night I much deplore. I hear that he

has ricked hi s back , but I trust he wi l l soon recover,and fol low the chase with his usual vigour. I have

seen Lord Portsmouth ’ s hounds,a first-rate pack ,

and one which would do credit to any country. I

have seen Mark Rol le ’ s,al so a very workman-l ike

establ i shment ; and Mr. We stlak e’

s,the South

Devon. Al though somewhat short of foxes , they

are under the management of a very ski lful sp ortsi

man . I have seen the Four Burrow in their own

country—a most useful working pack. T heir country

i s not lihe L eicestersheere , as the whipper—in mal iciVOL. 11. 6

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ously remarked when he thought I had tumbled into

a di tch ful l of water. Lucki ly for me it was the

man behind me. Wel l , the country i s not quite l ikeLeicestershire

,but i t i s one where you may see a

good deal of sport. And now Mr. Wi l l iams hasbrought hi s hounds here and treated us to such a

day’ s sport to-day that he deserves our warmest

thanks. I then went a l ittl e further south and saw

the western hounds draw the Logan Rock,and

scrambl ing over cl i ffs where nothing but the seagul l

had ever perched before . I then saw them find a

fox in a gorse inland and account for him in good

form. I have seen another thing that you can see

nowhere except in the western countie s : two old

gentlemen,twin brothers (Messrs. Leamon), seventy

two years of age,hunting hounds

,whipping-in to

each other,and conducting the whole Operation in a

business-l ike,respectable and systematic manner

,

without any flouri sh about i t,and able to give a

lesson to many swel l s in more Swel l countrie s. And

now I have seen the squire ’s hounds. I have al so

seen two dogs go out hunt ing on horseback,a Sight

which you can see in no other country. I have seen

the squi re ’ s hounds run in such a form that I begin

to have some faith in your moors,and to understand

why you al l talk of them with such enthusiasm .

Last,and not least , I have had the privi lege of

renewing my acquaintance,and I trust obtaining the

friendship,of the worthy squire of Co ldrennick

,who

combines a cordial ity and dignity which captivates

your affection and commands your respect. Long


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vard . Mrs. Russel l was not wel l and did not

.Ie down to dinner. N ext morning it was snowing

d. He came into my room at e ight o’

c lock,and

1,

“ T here i s not a pack of hounds wi thin twenty

es to-day. Ever seen the Doones Houses ?

let’

s go there.

After breakfast he mounted me on an old

roughbred mare with one eye and a long coat ,l offwe trotted. After going a couple of miles,aid

,Don

’

t go so fast,I can

’

t keep up with you”

.

said,

“ Change with me,I know her ways

,and

"

o t on his l ittl e black horse,the one he was painted

The Doones Houses were about twelve miles over

moor,and the snow mel ted by degrees. When

got there he said “ May as wel l see Lynmouth ,

)ut six mi les further , so on we went and had lunch

:h a charming lady,whose name I forget. When

got out of the vil lage he started and gal loped

whole way back to Dennington,view-hol loaing

a boy.

Mrs. Russel l came down to dinner to meet me

)elieve the last time she ever dined downstairs .

ter dinner I got into a post-chai se,drove to

rnstap le ,got into the train

,and arrived at T orquay

1 1 RM .

20th March .—P oltimore ’

s Hounds,last day they

nted. Melbury drive end ,Went to E xeter

T uesday. Sold Lady E rskine’ s horse to Pedrick

3 gave me a mount on a one-eyed grey horse.

Me t Lord D igby and Marker at the meet at


1 1 O’c lock . Went up to Melbury

,had some food

and saw the house and garden ; a beauti ful new

l ibrary just buil t. I l chester and hi s brother-in-law

came from Abbotsbury. J ack E vans appeared with

a smi l ing countenance.

Hounds fine drawn and very fit. Bob Wrightfirst whip from Lothian s ; he goes to Lord M iddle

ton ’s. Smith,second whip

,goes to T . Hammond.

Woodcock,second horseman

,goes as second whip

to Cotswold.

Drew some outside places blank ; found in RagCopse. Melbury beastly “ dumbly place , very

deep. Hunted him round about. Hounds first-rate

in their work,very cheery and very dil igent.

Evans has a fine voice and a good horn. The

men have good hound language. Hunted up to

him at last,and to ground in a hedge

,close at him

hounds dug like badgers. Evans said,

“We wil l

l eave him and go and find another J ust then the

hounds pul l ed him out. I said,

“ I want to see i f

you look as solemn as you look in the picture

N ow then,Sir

,I’

l l show you the right thing,

” and

held the fox up with a Shining face and his mouth

wide open .

I n the month of March I was staying at Egge s

ford with Lord Portsmouth,and we agreed that

i t was a pity that no further steps had been

taken to form the Hunt Servants’ Benefi t Society.

I wrote to the fol lowing Masters of Hounds

Leconfie ld ; G . Lane Fox ; Maccle sfie ld ; J ames

Hal l ; Poltimore ; J . Chaworth Musters Ports

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mouth ; Francis Scott ; H . Chapl in—and we sent

out this ci rcular

HUNT SERVANTS ’ BENEF IT SOCIETY .

A meeting was held at York,on 3rd August ,

1 87 1 , when a committee was appointed,but no

further meeting took place . T he rules and regu la

tion s have been careful ly drawn up,the rates of

subscript ions have been advisedly fixed by an ex

p e rienced actuary. T he society wil l consist of

honorary members and benefit members.“T he objects of the society are to provide to

benefit members : ( 1 ) A weekly al lowance in case

of Si ckness or accident ; (2 ) T o provide an annuity

after the age of sixty-fiv e years ; (3) T o make a

prov is ion for widows and children . T hese payments

are calculated on the bare subscript ions of benefit

members,and wil l be considerably increased by the

contributions of honorary members.“ Persons may become honorary members on

payment of a donatio n of £5, or an annual subscription of £ 1

,which wil l form a fund for the purpose

of increasing the payments to benefi t members .

Huntsmen and whippers-in of any pack of

foxhounds or staghounds in the U nited K ingdom may

become benefi t members on paying an entrance fee

of 1,and an annual subscription according to scale

,to

participate in any or al l of the three provisions before

stated,the subscription to be paid on the I st of J anuary.

“ M r. Anstruther T homson consents to act as

interim honorary secretary.

”



that he should go to the N i le for the winter, and I

engaged Dr. Page to go with him . He left London

on I st Nov . T he weather was not good ,and they

had a very troublesome and fatiguing j ourney to

Brindi si and not a very good passage. T hey were

j oined by Sandbach ,whose father had been at E ton

with me,and hired a dahabeah—the Z enobia—a

very good vessel . He was able to get out Shooting,

and succeeded in kil l ing a crocodi le and made a good

col lection of birds.

He l eft Egypt in Apri l , 1 873, and when he got

to Rome,Dr. P antalione wrote to me that I had

better come to him , he had lost so much weight. I

left home on the 6th May ; l eft Dover on the 8th ,

and went to F l orence without stopping ; missed him

there ; returned to M i lan and learned that he had

gone to Cadenabb ia,and I got to him there on the

1 2 th,and found him much more i l l than I expected.

We left Cadenabb ia on the 2 1 st May to come home ;got to Calai s about the 7 th J une , but i t was so rough

that we did not cross for three days. On arriving in

London he had an attack of pleuri sy. I got a house

in Onslow Square,N o. 9 ,

and he died there on the

4th July. He was buried at K i lconquhar on the 8thJuly. J ohn Pye came up from Atherstone to London

and was a great help to me, and went down to

Charleton with us.

Letter from my mothe r to my wife



saddlebags and come and stay a night or two. All

visitors came for a night or two,either offering to

come or by invitation,but company dinners were

unknown . T he old Colonel and the Si sters often

came over from Coates,and we went there.

“We used to go to visi t for a coupl e of days

in the county,for

,as there were no rai l roads, few

strangers came amongst us . My father and aunt

and my brothers (when on leave) were very much

with us,and Blair Adam was another home to the

children in later days. I n 1 8 10 we spent a winter

at my father’

s in London , when E l eanor was a year

old , andafter that I was never out of Scotland for

th irteen years. We used to vi si t in E . Lothian and

in Perthshire , and I think I have slept in most

houses in F i fe.

“Sometimes these vi sits were stupid enough

,

but sometimes very pleasant—Dunikier, Balb irnie ,Birkhill, Mount Melvi l le , were the most frequent ,and , nearer home

,Largo

,Kilconquhar, Gil ston ,

but not much at Balcarres. M r. Lindsay and

J ohn’

s father did not sui t each other, but Mrs. L.

and I vi sited .

I n early days Sir Robert was the only inmate

at Balcask ie , and a three o’

clock dinner was rather

a penitence—another three o’

clock dinner at I nner

gellie . Mrs. Lumsden was our aunt, a dear kind

Old lady, but the laird was a very rough old soldier.“ As the chi ldren grew up

,of course , more of

my time was occupied with them . T hey had their

fixed hours with the governess, some of them rode,


others walked with their governess,and then d inner

hours were later , so they d ined and early vi sitors

lunched with them.

“We twice had a house in Edinburgh for the

winter. T hey had masters,and they always spent

the evenings and al l the i r spare time in the drawing

room , and often they danced in the evenings (always

when grandpapa was with us), and the l ittl e things

had a window with their own l i ttl e table and toys so

as to be my companions. J ohn can tel l you of these

days

Perhaps you wil l think I l ived a very idle l ife .

I d id not. I read a great deal and worked , and as

I had to spend many months on the sofa before

some of the chi ldren came I could not get out

much .

“ My uncle,Lord Keith

,paid us a vi si t

,and

the Flauhauts twice , and the Wi l l oughbys offered,

but a storm on the Forth stopped them . I t was

before the days of steamers. Lord Wi l loughbygave J ohn

’

s father Shooting,so he used to go to

the H ighlands every year.“ I n ’

2 9 we went to Leamington for hi s heal th .

He had always suffered much at times,and

,as

J ohn knows,we latterly saw few people but my

father,aunts and brothers , and a blessing they were

to me .

I t was always my father ’ s desi re to cheri sh the

affection between my brothers and mysel f, and it

has proved a comfort while they were spared , and

J ohn ’ s father ful ly shared in it ; and we tried to


fol low it out with our chi ldren , and I cannot te l l

you the blessing this has been to me for more t han

forty years now .

May you be so blessed and helped and

strengthened as I have been under some very

sore trial s. God ble ss you.

Y"affe c.

C . A. T .

I might have said that we sometimes made

short tours to the H ighlands ; and when the b ounds

were j oined with the Forfar Hounds,J ack would go

there and I went once or twice. Dewar of Gil ston

was the fami ly we saw most of and l iked : T he

second daughter married Maj or Parsons ; the third 1

Sir J . Anstruther of E l ie . T he eldest was my

particular friend.

“ I am afraid thi s wil l be diffi cul t to read,and

it i s not worth your taking much trouble .

”

1 She afterwards married Dr. Marsham , Warden of Merton

Co l lege , Oxford.



in Lincolnshi re,Mr. J arvi s being abroad for the

season . I happened to meet one of Colonel

Gardyne’

s sons,and said

,

“T el l your father that

Harry Goodal l would l ike to see a hunt again ”

.

Colonel Gardyne kindly wrote to Colonel Ewart,

who granted Goodal l three days ’ l eave . He went

down to Doddington and went out hunting next

day in his red stable j acket,l eather breeches

,boots

and forage cap,and rode at the head of the hunt

al l day. He was extremely popular with every one,

and had a very good time of it. He died of con

sumption in the regiment about 1 899 .

Colonel Gardyne re -establ i shed the Forfar

Hounds in 1 86 7 , there having been no pack in that

country for some years. The keenness of the field

and the severity of the cl imate i s wel l described in

the Scotti sh bal lad by Mrs. Gardyne ,of which I

quote some VCI‘

SCS

A SCOTTISH BALLAD.

20th yanuary , 1 870.

The frost lay east,the fro st lay we st,

T he fro st was in th e ground ;

Th e loch was ice , th e b ills were white ,T he fie lds were iron-bound.

The Master lo oked his w indow fo rth,An

’

0 his face was wae“ It

’

s vain to dre ss, it ’s vain to mount,

We’s ne

’e r can hunt the day

T ram p , tram p ! upon the frozen groundThe horse s

’ho ofs ring out ;

The red coats gleam—the ho rsemen seem

T o gather all about .

An’up rode four braw gent lemen

A’ready for the chase ,

There was Ramsay, Rait and Airl ie ’

s Earl,

An’L indsay

’

s p l easant face .

Shame o n ye , laggards,” cried Rait , irate ;

Com e forth , my me rry men

Wad ye sit a’

day by the ingle neuk ,N or hunt the T od frae

’s den

The Guynd l ies fresh and soft this morn ,

All Op en to the sea ;

An’it be fro st o

’er h il l and dale ,

It’s no b e fro st w i

’

me

An’five-and-twenty Angus m en

Are ridin’at my back ;

Go od m en and true,o’

er fence and fie ldBut where—ah where ’s the pack

An’up an

’spak’ our Master then

0 hand your tongue s,”

quo’he ;

Ye are na b late , that ride w i ’ Rait,An

’speak sic words to m e .

Now gang your ways, fair sirs, h e said,

Ride canny o’e r the b raes ;

Ye’s a

’

gang ham e that h ither came,

An’

h o pe for b etter days .

”

A. A. G . G .

When Colonel Babington was Master in 1 864,

Painting got some hounds from the Cotswold

kennel . Among them was a l ight-coloured dog

cal led “Wi seman ,rather oversized

,high on hi s

legs,and not very good about hi s feet

,capital

Shoulders,a long neck

,and rather a sharp nose.

He was capital in hi s work and very rough in hi s

temper. He did not much improve the F i fe Hounds

in appearance.

Colonel Gardyne when master was very anxious

to have a picture of him,and happening to mention


thi s one day when dining at Mr. Melvi l le’ s, a gentle

man present,a stranger to him

,said he would be

happy to paint i t. T o thi s the Colonel consented

on learning that the speaker was a portrai t painter

who had come to paint a picture of Mr. WhyteMelvi l le . The arti st accordingly went to the kennel

,

found no one at home except the feeder,who put

a pair of couples on Wi seman,who was very

cross and came out with hi s tai l between his legs

and hi s ears back as if he was going to be hanged.

The portrait was painted,a faithful l ikeness

,

couples and al l,and sent home. On seeing i t the

Colonel suggested that the expression was not quite

happy,and that the couples should not have been

introduced , and returned it to be al tered. The

painter al tered the expression sl ightly,cocked up

the ears, painted out the couples,but leaving the

col lar, and returned it to the astonished master, who

at least possesses a unique picture of a foxhound.

RAMORNIE, LADYBANK,

1 2 th january , 1 873 .

MY DEAR T HOMSON,

“Wi l l you take the b ounds next season ?

I only took them for one year as an interregnum . I

may go or the hunt may turn me out. Supposing

they don ’ t do that,I am too grateful for the kindness

shown to me by al l you F i fers,great and smal l , to

throw the thing up in a hurry ; and ,indeed

,I l ike it

very much,and I know it i s bad for a country to

have any uncertainty about masters, and therefore

I have not hinted to any one of thi s proposal to you



wynd (the old kennel s at N ew I nn being thirteen

miles from Charleton added a good deal to the

day’s work). T here were some ruinous bui l

o

at Harle swynd and two cottages. I drew the plan

mysel f and my forester, Wi l l iam J ohnstone

,carried

out the work. The kennel s were finished and fires

l ighted on 2 6 th September. Cub-hun ting com

m enced on the same day at Ladybank Hounds

were moved from N ew I nn to Harle swynd on I st

N ovember.

I engaged T om Hastings as kenne l hun tsman ;J ack Shepherd remained as second whip , and Fred

Whitehal l came as second horseman .

Hastings came from Mr. Egerton in Kent. I

had known him for some years prev iously. He

whipped-in to J ohn Atkinson when Sir David Baird

and Sir Al e x . Kinloch were masters in East

Lothian ; after that he whipped-in to Bob Worral lwith VVarw ick shire Hounds. He was a good horse

man and capital whipper-in,and a very pleasant

,

useful servant . He caught cold hunting on foot in

the snow, and at the end of the season , Apri l , 1 878,

got inflammation in hi s lungs and had to leave .

I got him a place as groom to go to Pau with Lord

Howth . He was put on there as whipper-in,and

sent me the fol l owing amusing letter .

24 A VENUE P ARTE N EUVE ,

P AU , BASSE P YRN EESE, April, 1 870.

HONBLE. SIR,

“ I thank you very much for your kind

letter,and should have answered it before

,but have


been waiting ti l l I could give you some sort of a

description of the hounds and country —and the

hounds when I came here were in such form as I

never saw hounds before . I wil l te l l you of two days.

The first : I Was out with them at exercise the first

day. We left the kennel s wi th twenty couple,al l

old hounds and al l in couples,and for an hour we

got on pretty wel l . But such a noise you never

heard,i t was nothing but yel l ing and cracking whips

al l the way. T here was more row in that hour than

we made in F i fe al l the five years I was there ; and

I could not parlez v ouz Francie and the huntsman

could not Speak a word ofEngl i sh ,but I could make

out that some of the hounds were good at running

cur dogs. And I soon had proof of it,for we turned

a sharp corner,and about 100 yards in front of us

was a bul lock waggon and such a nice cur dog,and

as soon as the hounds saw him they began to dance

on their h ind legs,the huntsman began cracking hi s

whip in front,his horse began dancing

,the whip did

the same behind,then one or two of the hounds said

‘Bow Wow,

’ and away the lot went ful l cry,and

they ran poor cur about three-quarters of a mile and

rol led him over . T hey did not quite ki l l h im,but

he got a great fright . And these are hounds that

came from Major B rown,the same blood that he

gave £ 100 each for at Lord P o ltimo re’

s sale,and I

was glad when I saw them in the kennel safe . T he

second day was just such another. T he first part

was pretty quiet. I gave some of the worst a stripe

with the whip,and I began to think we shou ld get

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safe home,but

,bad luck to i t

,we met a French

servant at exerci se with two horses and three

pointers,and in two minutes we had three packs

of hounds running a dog each in view,the hunts

man gal loping up the road blowing his horn as wel l

as he is able,the whip fol lowing cracking his whip

and yel l ing “ Get to him,get to him

,

” and they did

get to him (that is , the pointers). T hey never

looked near the huntsman,and after about fifteen

minutes I got the huntsman to stand sti l l,then I

j umped off my horse and met one pack close to their

dog,knocked the leading ones over into the ditch

,

and in a few minutes got al l stopped but a couple ;then I took off my coat and thrashed them as long

as I was able,and they have never run a cur since.

I f they look at one and I say "Ware Cur,

’ that is

plenty and they are a very useful lot.“T he fields are not a bit bigger than your stable

yard,and nasty rotten banks

,and al l the country

covered with gorse from six inches to two feet high,

but hounds get over it. I t i s al l very wel l at the

time whi le hounds are running,and we cannot help

riding and cheering them,but when i t i s over every

sportsman must be ashamed of himself gal loping after

a bunch of dirty straw . But last Saturday we had

something l ike the real thing. We ran a drag about

twenty minutes,then turned a fox out of a bag and

ran him an hour and three-quarters—a real good

hunting run—and kil led him. We have a fox every

day,but they always run l ike a rabbit.

“ I am glad to hear you have had good sport,



Dick Roake got him on with Mr. Hargreaves in the

stable with Old Berkshire Hounds,but he could not

keep Straight with his money,and kept back the

men ’s wages.

H e was sent to T attersal l ’ s with some horses

to be sold . After the sale he was found at hi s

brother-ih -law ’ s house— a publ ic—with hi s head

leaning on the table,stone dead

,having poisoned

himsel f. He was a member of the Hunt Servants’

Society for al lowance to widow,but having destroyed

himsel f had forfeited his claim but the members of

committee of Hunt Servants made up the sum by

subscription and sent it to hi s widow. I think he

was servant to Lord Fitz hardinge when he was at

col lege , and he went out with General Beatson

during the Crimean War.

1 874.—T here was a report that the mastership

of the Buckhounds would be offered to F ranci s

Lord Rosslyn . He wrote to me

EASTON LODGE, DuNMow ,

29t/i jannary , 1 874.

MY DEAR JACK,

I hear pr ivately that Hardwicke i s going

to resign the Buckhounds,and that they wil l

probably be offered to me. I don ’ t wish to do

anything in a hurry which might entai l subsequent

regrets ; and I know no one whose judgment I

value so much as yours,and I therefore write for

your advi ce.

“ I n the first place , the kennel has been deci

mated by rabies,and Hardwicke has acted ,

in ‘hi y


opinion,with more courage than prudence in not

destroying the whole pack. T hi s of itsel f would be

a critical question to deal with at the outset . T hen

i t impl ies nine months’ residence in London out of

the twelve,which I should hate

,and compul sory

and constant attendance on the T reasury Bench .

T hen as to the hunting , I should hate that worst of

al l ; and I bel ieve the farmers would gladly see the

whole thing abol i shed . T he salary has been raised,

and is suffi cient. I can ’ t afford to Spend a sh il l ing

of my own,for I have given up fox-hunting as the

easiest economy I could practise . T hen Ascot has

outgrown itsel f,and the enclosure is a labour in

itself not easily cred ited.

My lady would l ike the entre’

e at Court,and I

Should be a B C,but for al l practical purposes I

should be a loser. T hen there i s the recol lect ion of

my dear father,and to provoke compari son s with

him would be sadly against me— Louis le grand,

and Louis le petit ! Don ’t tel l anybody ,but write

me a s soon as you have time,and especial ly what

you think about keeping the hounds after the re

currence of rabies for six months.

Frank Goodal l i s both bl ind and deaf.

Yours affe c

ROSSLYN .

MY DEAR FRANCIS,

“ I have been thinking al l day about the

Master of the Buckhounds,and its pros and cons.

“An appointment of that sort ought not to be


l ightly refused. T he question is,Are the soc ial and

pol itical advantages sufficient to counterbalance the

duties, some Ofwhich may not be agreeable to you ?

I n the first place,the position for Lady Rosslyn and

her daughters i s everything to be desired,and for

yourself al so. What the duties on the T reasury

Bench may be,I do not know

,but nothing that you

cannot perform with ease. Wi th regard to the

hunting,I can say more.

I f you accept the position,you must do the

duty—you must come on parade , and not leave the

huntsman entire ly to hi s fate . As to hunting,i t has

never been so wel l done since your father was

Master, and it ought to be done as he did i t. He

used to say that if any fore igners were at Windsor,

and came to see the establ i shment,that i t ought to

be worth looking at. I do not mean to say that

you can do it as wel l as he did,for I never knew

any one who could ; but I am sure you can do it

as wel l as anybody el se,and better than it has been

done lately,and it i s SO long ago Since he was Master

that there are not many left to draw comparisons.

I was out the year before last. T he men

were not wel l mounted,no two of the horses the

same pattern ; the first whip on a hot beast that

commenced proceedings by kicking a hound head

over heels—a most ignoble proceeding for a hunt

horse. The horse department you can do as wel l

as any one.

Goodal l i s a del icate man,but he i s a respect

able,good servant

,very civi l and pleasant

,and a



the troop s wi l l afterwards march past. T he escort

to accompany the Lord H igh Commissioner on the

3o th wil l be furni shed by the F ife Light Horse .

(Signed) G . Peacocke , Colonel , A . A. G .

The Royal Dragoons were quartered at P iershill,and the escort on the fi rst day was commanded by

Captain M iddleton . On Friday,

2 9 th , the F i fe

Light Horse arrived by special train at Granton,

and crossed in the luggage boat. T he Dunferml ine

troop joined them at the Dean Bridge,and the

regiment marched by Princes Street and the Calton

H i l l , and formed up in front of Holyrood Palace .

At 8 p m . the regiment paraded ,dismounted and

l ined the passages at the palace during Lady

Rosslyn ’ s drawing-room .

On the 3o th they attended the review in the

Queen ’ s Park , and were entertained at luncheon

by the H igh Commissioner,in the great gal lery,

at 3 .30. He al so took the Opportuni ty of presenting

a piece of plate to Sir Arthur Halkett, on his giving

up the management of the West of F i fe Hounds.T he regiment embarked at Granton at 5.30,

and returned home . T hree members of the regi

ment imagined that their rel igious principles would

be compromised by taking part in any ceremony

connected with the E stabl i shed Church of Scotland,

and therefore sent in their resignation s.

At that time the H igh Commissioner’s coach

went with six horses. I t was very old and v'

ery

heavy. I agreed to see al l the horses and carriages

properly turned out. Scott 8: Croall provided horses,


and very good ones ; but I had seen no one who

could drive properly. I knew a man in London,

named T imms,who used to drive for Charl ie Ward

,

and had driven a three-horse ’bus over London

Bridge dai ly. He was a first-rate coachman,and

a big,stout

,good-l ooking man

,and looked quite

the character in a cocked hat and Si l k stockings.

He did his work very wel l,and in consequence

got the situation of head coachman to the Duke

of Portland. One day the state coach going out

somewhere,four-in-hand

,the rotten old pole broke

,

but no harm was done .

Sir F rederick Hamil ton j oined the Grenadier

Guards in 1 83 1 , General , 1 876 ,and Colonel of 2 i st

Foot. Served in the Crimean War ; present at

battles of Alma,Balaclava and I nkerman (sl ightly

wounded and horse shot) ; was in command of

Grenadier Guards after I nkerman ; C.B. ,medal

with four Clasps,Officer of Legion of Honour

, 3rd

Mejedie and T urkish Medal . He married M i ss

Louisa Anstruther,daughter of Sir Alexander An

struther,of Thirdpart.

I n 1 874 Sir Frederick Hamil ton stood for the

county Of F i fe . His opponent was Sir Robert

Anstruther. He was not a good candidate ; he

had only lately come to l ive at P itco rthie ,and was

not known in the county. He was by no means

eloquent . He read his speeches,which were ex

ce llent on paper,and he was by no means ready

at “ heckl ing ”

. He had long been known by the

nickname of F roggy

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I went round the country and helped him as

much as I could . Among other places,we went

to Auchtermuchty. T he meeting took place on

the steps of the town hal l . When Hamilton had

fini shed his speech,the Provost said

,

“ Sir Frederick

wi l l answer any questions,

” and turning to J ames

Murray,a fi sh cadger

,said

,

“

Je ems,have you

any question to ask ? ”

Je ems became deadly pale,

clenched hi s fists,and glared in Hami l ton ’ s face.

“Sir Frederick

,you ’re a sodger ? “ Yes

,

” said

Hamilton quietly.

“ You’

ve stud in the deadly

breach ? ” “ Yes. “ And what ’ s your op e enion of

honorary Colonels ? “ I am one mysel f.” “ Yes

,

but what’

s your op e enion of the principle of honorary

Colonel s ? “ I t i s my only reward for forty years’

service. T he mob cheered thi s. Some other

questions were asked about l icensing laws,etc.

,and

then Je em s Murray made a sort of salute,touching

his forehead,and said

,

“ And,indeed

,Sir Frederi ck

,

I ’m no weel pleased with you ava.

”

T he pol l ing

day was on the 1 l th February. Sir Frederick

Hamil ton was defeated by Sir Robert Anstruther

with a maj ori ty of 609 .

T he fol lowing poems were written by T orrens,

a cousin of Sir Robert Anstruther’

s

T UNE—Froggy would a-Wooing Go .

Froggy would a-woo ing goHe igh ho ! cried Rob ert

Wh ether “my lady ” would le t h im or no ,

To canvass the county, and what for noChorus—With h is T ory talkee , gammon and sp inageTal ly ho cried Anstruther Thomson .


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T o’

Muchty he went , but it didn’t avai l

He igh ho ! cried Rob ert

For the fo lk to ld h im th ere that h e’d b e tte r turn ta

So aw a’

Froggy gaed by th e very next mail ,Chorus—With h is T ory, e tc .

N ow of Froggy’

s re ve rse s to fi l l up the cup

H e igh ho cried Rob e rt

They’d to put him to bed, and to cover him up ,

Or a L iberal mob would have gobbled him up ,

Chorus—And h is T o ry , e tc .

Sir Thomas ofCamb o’s a go od man and true

He igh ho !”cried Rob ert

But, Sir T homas , your Share in th is conte st you’ l l rue ,

Fo r,b e l ie ve me

, you ne ver wi l l pul l your man through ,Chorus—With h is Tory, etc .

Th en Froggy, my mannie , ye’d b est mak

’

your b oo“ Bye , bye ! cried Ro b ert

Fo r the b etting against you’s 1 00 to 2 ,

And Fife sh ire prefe rs an old friend to a new,

Chorus—With such T ory talkee , gammon and sp inageG one away l cried Anstruther Thomson.

Sir Frederick Hamilton’

s brother—in- law,General

Phil ip Anstruther of Thirdpart , an arti l lery officer,was taken pri soner by the Chinese and put into a

cage .

MY DEAR BURGOYNE,

“ I write an account of how I was taken,

and how I have since fared,which I know you wil l

be kind enough to have copied and sent to my

brother for transmission to my mother. I make i t

out from a l ittle d iary which I have kept ever Since

my arrival here .

“On Wednesday, the 1 6 th of September, 1 84 1 ,

I started,at about ten O

’clock,to the N orth gate

of T inghae ,to get the val leys on the great north road

COL . ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 1 1 1

put down accurately in my survey. I went about

yards from the gate to a place where there

are several houses and gardens,and from whence

a road branches off to the westward . I went along

thi s road and ascended the pass between the h il l s,then turned to the left

,getting up a knol l , from the

top of which I go t a set of bearings. I then went

down the western side of the pass,and passed a

smal l joss-house on the right , th ick trees overhanging

both sides of the narrow path making i t quite dark.

I determined,as soon as I got clear of thi s

dangerous- looking place,to retrace my steps

,but on

getting to the other end of the grove I became aware

that we were fol lowed by a crowd of Chinamen . I

took no notice,but turned to the left

,meaning to

go up the hi l l again,keeping to the open ground .

“We had hardly turned when a Chinese soldier

rushed out from the crowd with a weapon in hi s

hand,with which he struck at my old lascar

,the only

man I had with me. He avoided the blow and ran

up to me in great alarm . I took from him the iron

spade with which he used to dig the hole for a tent

pole,and met the soldier

,driving him back ; but a

great number of others charged me and my poor old

man,and it was evidently a hopeless j ob. I charged

them,and they got al l round me

,and then my poor

old man ran back about eighty yards,when he was

met,and I saw them pounding his head with large

stones as he lay with his face downwards.

“ I saw that attempt at flight was useless,and

set to'

w ork to make the rascal s pay for it,and

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fought my best,but of course numbers prevailed

and I was sent down . I nstead of dashing out my

brains,they set to work to t ie my hands behind me

and my ankles together,tied a huge gag on my

mouth,and then quietly took a large bamboo and

hammered my knee-caps to prevent the possibil ity

of an escape.

“ I was then put into a palanquin,which was

evidently kept ready for some such contingency ,and we hurried off to the north-west

,and fetched

a circuit round to the south-west angle of the i sland

of Chusan,to a vil lage about Six miles from Sapper

’

s

Point,where we waited ti l l nightfal l

,my conductors

comforting me by drawing their hands across their

throats as they pronounced the ominous word

Ningp o

“ At about 7 p m . we got into a boat with a

cover,and I laid mysel f down and Sl ept many hours

ti l l we came to N ingpo,where I was forced to get

into a cage made of wood one yard long,one yard

high , and two feet wide ; a ring was put round my

neck (of iron), and my hands put into handcuffs

locked to a stick about one foot long , which was

fastened to my neck ring. Very heavy leg-i rons

were now riveted on to my ankles (they weigh about1 8 and I wore themfor four week s.

On the 1 9 th and 20th I was carried up to the

mandarins and was questioned about our Steamships.

I Offered to draw one for them,whereon they

became very friendly and ordered a bigger cage for

me ; this was 3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 1 in .


1 14 REM I N ISCENCES OF

o’clock,and seldom has such a field been seen in F i fe

as assembled thi s day to do honour to “the Fo rfar

shire v i sitors. Most hunting men know Captain

Carnegy of Lour by reputation- the popular Master

of the Forfarshire Hounds—and some,not many

years ago,have seen him sai l ing over those grand

N orthamp tonshire pastures.‘Who i s that man ? ’

was the inquiry I made—well,no matter how many

years ago— when walking down St. J ames’ s Street one

day with a mi l i tary friend.

‘Oh

,don ’ t you know

that i s J immy Rait,of the 1 5th ,

the finest horseman

in England.

’

A hard-bitten lot were those 1 5th in

days Ofyore ; and as we see him to-day,erect and

firm in the saddle as ever,i t i s evident that time has

deal t very tenderly with Colonel Rait of Anniston .

The Carnegie family were wel l represented ,

for,besides the Master

,we noticed Lord Carnegie ,

Captain Lindsay Carnegie of Kinb le thmont and Mr.

Claud Carnegie,Mr. B ruce Gardyne of M idd leton ,

with several others whose names we did not asce r~

tain . Colonel T homson of Charleton,of course

,was

at the head of a strong F ife brigade .

‘T here wi l l

be some hard rid ing at Dairsie ,

’ was a remark I

heard more than once during the last few days ; and

any one who knows Forfarshire Iqen is wel l aware

that they wil l not forego the pride of place if they

can help it , but there wil l be no j ealousy in the

unapproved sense of the term .

T he fi rst covert drawn was Nydie , and a fox was

found amongst the quarries on the hi l l . He breaks

away to the south,but is either headed or changes


his mind,and turns back again through the wood at

Kemback,making straight for the Eden . Wi l l he

cross the water ? is the thought that suggests itsel f to

many,for no fox has taken that l ine for the last

fifteen years ; but al l doubt upon the subject is

speedily removed as we see the Fo rfarshire Master

plunge in and cheer his hounds forward on the

opposite side . The scent i s indifferent,but they

work perseveringly and wel l up the hi l l through the

heavy ploughland,never interfe red with

,but ful l of

that support that is as necessary for hounds as for

men,till they reached Craig-Sanquhar. T hey have

worked up to their fox,and he is viewed on the cold

frowning crag not fifteen yards in front of them but

they cannot press him here,though they drive him

from his stronghold,and force him back again into

the open country. I f he has strength enough he

may regain the covert at Kemback,but it is a heavy

j ourney,and he must again cross the Eden. Coming

to the rai lway,the hounds are so close to him that

escape seemed impossible but he struggles on,and

saves his l ife in an open drain close to the river.

The hounds rich ly deserved him,for they had

worked wel l over a di fficul t country,and when I add

that,owing to an accident to the van

,they had

walked upwards of twenty m ile s to the meet,thei r

condition and endurance reflect much credit on their

huntsman .

Ladeddie i s next tried and a fox found , and

away at once,but he gets to ground in a few fields.

Another has been seen back in the covert,and

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though the Master hits his l ine they cannot make

much of it,and we go on to theWhite Den . Here an

old friend of the F i fe Soon leaves the gorse,and

takes the l ine he has done on two or three former

occasions,past Callange and over Kininmonth H i l l ;

but the scent,never good

,has not improved as the

day wore on,and he has plenty of time to gain a

drain near Ladeddie .

“So ended the Forfarshire day in F i fe

,and as

we said ‘Good-night ’ to our friends we hoped that

they had enjoyed their visit to the ‘ancient king

dom ’ as much as those who had assembled that day

to do honour to Captain Carnegy of Lour and the

Forfarshire Hunt .

1 874—Coming home one evening I had trotted

on before the hounds and got to the kennel,put my

horse in the stable,and found Adam Sloane

,a

helper,asleep with his head on the mess-room table.

I said,

“ J ump up and give my horse some gruel ” .

He went into the stable,took up a bucket and gave

the gruel to a horse which had not been out. I said,

“What the devil are you doing ? ” He turned

round and said, Speak to me l ike that I ’ l l chuck the

bucket at you ”

. I said,Put the bucket down and

get out of the stable ”

. T here was a l ittle pickaxe

used for pul l ing up nettles standing against the wal l

he took it up and came to me. I p icked up a fork

and caught the pick between the prongs,pushed him

back and caught hold of his col lar. My horn was

sticking in the breast of my coat ; he got“

hold of it

and j obbed me on the back of the head with the


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as saul t ; but Hastings insisted,and Sloane said

,

“ I ’ l l go if you let me get my jacket,and went

upstairs,and not coming back Fred Whitehal l said

,

“ I ’ l l bet he jumped out of the window I t was

only nine or ten feet high .

I n the middle of the night Sloane went to old .

David’

s house and made him let him in,and sle pt

there ti l l dayl ight and then d i sappeared . He was

found by the pol ice the fol lowing evening asleep

on the side of the road near Burnti sland,nearly

thirty miles from the kennel s. He was brought

before Sheri ff Beatson Bel l,who said

,

“T hi s i s a

very serious offence,

” and sentenced him to forty days

w ithout hard labour. He was let off very easy,and

deserved six months. I l earned afterwards that as

soon as the hounds had gone out he caught one of

the old dog horses in the kennel field,rode it down

to the vi l lage,got drunk , and brought a bottle back

with him .

A very hard winter ; stopped from 7 th Decembe r

to 7 th J anuary.

Snow Hunts—Hunted seven times in the snow ,

and ki l led four foxes.

The destruction of lambs was awful thi s year.

Guild,L indores

,1 5 J ohn Bel l , Stenton , 4 ; Edmon

stone,Lindefarm ,

1 5 ; Hardie, Nydie ,1 5 ; H i l l ,

Kenly,2 or 3 ; M i tchel l , Hiskm iln , 4. A nice old

H ighlander said ,

“ He find the flavour of them in

the m ornin

Season commenced 2 6th September, 1 87 3 ;

ended 6th Apri l , 1 874. Hunting days, seventy ;

COL . ANSTRUTHER THOMSON I 19

foxes ki l led,twenty brace. The hounds were very

unsteady. I took the same pack out every day til l

they became more trustworthy,and then added a

few of the wilder ones.

IMP ORTAT ION OF FOXES FROM SCOTLAND .

1 874—Last summer the fol l owing adverti sement

appeared in the P eople ’sjournal, a newspaper widely

ci rculated,publ i shed at Cupar in the county of F i fe

To Gam ekee pe rs.-Wanted a few brace of young foxe s.

Wi l l pay a fair price for th em . Ap p ly, stat ing terms,to John

Christ ison, Chal e Abbey, Chale , Is le ofWight.

I n consequence of thi s advertisement a box label led

Live Stock ,sender F indlay

,

” was despatched on

10th July to the above address. I then wrote to the

ed itor of the P eople’

sjournal“ I have made enquiries about Mr. Chri sti son ,

but as yet have been able to hear nothing about

him,and as it i s near the time when cubs make

their appearance I venture to trouble you with thi s

communication in the hope of bringi ng the subj ect

to his notice. I beg to inform him that the county

of F ife has been regularly hunted for many years,

and if he refers to any of the sporting papers he wil l

see that i t has been hunted five and six days a

week during the present season,and that foxes are

quite as valuable,and blank days equal ly detestable ,

to al l the fox-hunters in F ife as in the I sle ofWight,or any other part of the kingdom ; and that we

consider i t most unsportsmanl ike and ungentleman

l ike to hold out any inducement to unprinc ipled

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people to steal foxes,which must always be the

resul t of such advertisements.“ Perhaps Mr. Christison has done this in ignor

ance,that he only knows that F i fe is in Scotland

,

and that in some parts of Scotland foxes are not

preserved . I am quite wi l l ing to give him the

benefi t of the doubt,but I do hope that he wil l not

repeat his advertisements ; and I would suggest to

him that if he wishes to obtain H ighland foxes that

he should send his advertisement to the john 0

,

Groat’

s journal and the I nverness and Aberdeen

papers,and others in the northern d istrict

,where I

have no doubt he might obtain them without inter

fet ing with other countries which are regularly

hunted.

“ Yours very truly,

“

J . AN STRUTHER T HOMSON,

“ Master Of F i fe Foxhounds.CHARLETON

,COL IN SBURGH ,

FIFE.

I MP ORTAT ION OF FOXES FROM SCOTLAND .

I am afraid Mr. T homson has had a great

many blank days this season,or he surely would

not have let the thoughts of losing a brace of cubs

trouble his mind so long.

“ I should be very sorry if I had had any foxes

sent to me out of Mr. T homson ’s country, and , i f so,should be pleased to apologise

,as I certainly should

not do so intentional ly ; but as my advertisement

was sent to the P eople ’s journal, publ ished in

Dundee,and as 1

’

did not have any foxes from the


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F indlay and Mackie ( I forget the name of the other),out of a hole on the hil l behind Kinne ston Craigs

,

in the parish of P ortmoak ,county of Kinross

,about

two miles outside of the County of F ife but in the

F ife country’

. T hey were sent addressed from

Mawcarse Station,

’ in Kinross-shire,within about the

same distance of the ‘county of F i fe ’

. I d id not

think it necessary to mention al l these detail s in my

former letter. He says,

‘T hat he knows quite as

much about Scotland as I can tel l him He there

fore knows that Forfarshire is regularly hunted by

a pack of foxhounds four days a week,and as be

advertised for foxes in ‘the paper publ ished in

Dundee,

’ I have no doubt that the Master of the

Forfarshire Hounds feels quite as grateful to him

as I do,and although he has not asked for my

advice I venture to repeat my suggestion that he

should not repeat his adverti sement in any country

that is regu larly hunted .

Yours truly,

J . AN STRUTHER T HOMSON ,

“Master ofF ife Foxhounds.

CHARLETON , COLINSBURGH , FIFE.

The first time I hunted on the Lomond H i l l s,in 1 87 3, I said to Lewis Grant, the pol iceman , who

was a keen foxhunter,

“T here are not so many

foxes on the hil l as there were last season”

.

“ Ah ,

but the Cornal l was a fine Gael ic scholar.”

Most of

the shepherds,being H ighlanders, were more keen

to preserve foxes for him .

1Co l. Gardyne .


I n Apri l Charl ie went up for his army examina

tion. His tutor, Faithful , wrote to me saying that

he might pass very wel l,or perhaps not at al l

,and

said i t would be a good thing if I would go to London

to keep the boys from going to the theatre. I went

and stayed in lodgings in J ermyn Street,with twelve

or fourteen candidates and their tutor. Mr. Stopfo rd

and I used to wait at the end of the Burl ington Arcade

and capture the boys when they came out to luncheon,

give them their luncheon,and send them in again to

Burl ington House. T he resul t in Charl ie ’s case was

quite satisfactory,for he passed seventh of the lot.

I saw in the papers that Lord Wolverton ’s

bloodhounds were to meet on the 2 8th,at Boldre

Wood ,in the N ew Forest. I got up at five o ’clock

in the morning,put on a suit of flanne ls, took a thick

stick,and got into the six o’clock train to Lyndhurst

station,went on the top of the ’bus to Lyndhurst

town,and set off to tramp to the meet. I was over

taken by Mr. Cumberledge , one of the Rangers of

the Forest,whom I had formerly met .

On arriving at the meet the first person I saw

was George Whyte-M elvi l le. He said,

Hul lo !

this won ’t do ; you on your feet !”

He then went

to Frank Lovel l,who produced one of the keeper

’

s

ponies. I t was a beautiful forest pony,about four

teen hands high,and could carry any weight. Lord

Wolverton bought it the next day.

T hey proceeded to draw several large plantations,and had several deer on foot. One at last went

away with about hal f the bounds on the l ine . The

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huntsman got the rest of them,and gal loped down

the road just outside the covert . I fol lowed him ;

on getting there he was in front of the hounds which

were on the l ine . His l ot hit the l ine heel -way,and

went with such a bang,that they turned the whole

lot on to the heel . I f I had had a whip I might

have stopped them,but only having a thick stick I

was helpless. T hey ran some time in covert,and

eventual ly got away. J ust as they went away

Merthyr Guest said to George Melvil le,

“ I have

got another horse out,and your friend may ride him

if he l ikes ”. He was a grand chestnut horse,up to

any weight. I struggled on to him,and his second

horseman got on my pony. George Melvi l le said to

him,

“What are your orders ? ” “Stay out ti l l dark

,

sir.” We ran al l day without much scent.

I then went home with Frank Lovell,with whom

George Melvi l le was staying. I had left some

clothes at Lyndhurst station,and sent a message

that they were to be forwarded to me . We arrived

just in time for dinner,but no clothes. I was dis

guised in Lovel l ’s clothes,which were a very tight

fi t ; but had an excel lent and agreeable dinner, and

a post-chaise arrived at bringing my port

manteau. I again doffed my flannels,went to the

station,and got back to London and to my lodging

in J ermyn Street at 4 A.M .

1 874.—I was appointed Chairman of the Local

Authority in F i fe, and served all through the worst

time of pleuro-pneumonia.

Lord Spencer again became Master of Pytchley


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in every way than he was yesterday,so fresh after

the frost they could scarcely manage him. Last

night Tho rnewe ll made the horses up,as usual

,

before they went to thei r supper,and when they

came back from their supper about nine he heard

a moaning in Rainbow ’s ’ box,and upon entering it

he found him cast l ike a sheep upon his back in the

angle of the box and his feet in the air. I t took

five men to get him up,he was so fast. We gave

him some drinks and did al l we could to save him,

but he swel led to an enormous size and died quite

easily about one o ’clock. I have no doubt that he

must have struggled violently,and ruptured something

internal ly. I have sent him to the kennel s,and asked

J ohn Pye to See him opened and ascertain what he

died of.

I cannot tel l you how fond I was of the old

horse ; I think he was the best I ever rode . I feel

quite to have lost an old friend .

Bel ieve me ,“ Yours truly,

“ H . TOWN SHEND.

Rainbow was an I rish horse,dark brown ,

high . He was very strong and bold ,with the finest

possible temper,and was brought to Edinburgh by

Peter Moir. He sold him to Richard Rayner,the

Edinburgh riding-master. I n 1 865 I met him riding

down to dril l with the yeomanry at Portobel lo ; I

bought him for £ 100 ; he was then five years old .

He pul led very hard,but could gal lop and jump


wel l . He gave me several croppers , and if I rode

up to look at a fence he always insisted on j umping

it standing. One night,riding home in the dark

through Cottesbrook Park,opening a handgate I

could not reach the latch,and said “

Stand up !

and he immediately jumped it. He took the second

prize at I sl ington,1 866

,ridden by T om Firr. T he

day of the Waterloo run he had been out to exercisein the morning

,but “ Man of the Age

” on coming

out proved to be lame ; Rainbow was sent on in

his place. During the run Dick Roak e brought him

up to me at the brook beyond Glooston Wood andI rode him al l the rest of the day

,and back to the

kennel,arriving there at ten minutes past ten. He

was sold at T attersal l ’ s in 1 869 , and Mr. Rennie

bought him for £400. He afterwards became the

property of Mr. T oynbee,who sold him to Mr.

T ownshend of Caldecote .

A few days before the sale at T attersal l ’s a very

smart stout man with a white waistcoat came to

Brixworth to see the horses. My stud groom,

J ohn Pye,had his coat off and was rubbing a horse ’ s

legs . T he stout man said “ Here ! young man,

here ’s hal f a sovereign for you ; can you tel l me

anything about these horses ? ” J ohn put the hal f

sovereign in his pocket and said,

“ I think I can,

but stil l continued to rub the horse’

s legs. When hehad finished he went into the house

,put his coat on ,

and said,N ow

,I shal l be happy to attend to you ”

.

T he stout man turned out to be Mr. Rennie’

s groom .

After the sale J ohn gave him back the half-sovereign ,

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and said ,“ Give it to your men to drink Rainbow ’ s ’

health ”

T he year 1 874 was an unfortunate year for the

horses. Wyndham Anstruther bought a very fine

bay horse in the Atherstone country and lent him to

me. I cal led him “Si rloin ,

” as Wyndham was the

Hereditary Carver for Scotland . He was taken

i l l after hunting at Lucklaw H i l l and died. I sent

Wyndham a cheque,and he most handsomely returned

me hal f of it.

One day I was riding a young mare which I

bought from Gow . I was gal loping up a stony lane

at Chesters with the hounds al l round me to get to

a hol loa,when down she blundered

,up again and

staggered on,and then down again

,with her head

doubled under her,and did not seem incl ined to get

up again . T he only thing that happened to me was

I bruised my big toe. T he mare died a few days

afterwards of lock-j aw,and we discovered that She

had fractured her skul l just above her eye.

I bought a very useful mare from T om Richmond .

She was sent out when not fit. When she got homeshe began bleeding at the nose and died .

I saw a good-looking chestnut mare in a plough

and asked the farmer (Wi l son of Moo redge ) what hehad done with her. He said he had put her in a

dog-cart and She would not start. He said ,Ane o ’

the twa wil l dee the nicht When she started

She flee’

d l ike stour thundering terrible I bought

her and called her Stour —dust. She was a very

good one and I sold her at N orthampton .


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We al l,wife children

,hounds and horses

,went to

Lesl ie the night before . All drove to the meet.

Found at “ Call ing Maggy ”

(a rock on the B ishop’

s

H i l l), and were defeated by hol loas and wire-fences.

Found again at Orphit Moor, ran to the “ T od

stones ”

. Hastings and I were standing below the

rocks when something whirl ing in the ai r, .which

looked l ike a pair of breeches,fel l at my feet

“ Mantle - stone dead ; the moment after another,Matchless , almost fel l on to me. She l ay for

some time and then got up and trotted away

not much hurt.

One day this season hounds were running in

Orp hit Muir. I was on the top of the Lomond,had

tied my horse to the rai ls and was sitting on a stone.

Presently the stone began to creep,and away I went

down the hi l l l ike a toboggan ,with a shower of stones

fol lowing me. One caught me on the back and

knocked the wind out of me. Another hit me on

the knee,which turned me out of the course

,and I

managed to catch hold of a proj ecting rock,and

remained there, speechless. T orn Hastings came to

my assistance,and with the help of his whiplash I

managed to regain a firm footing.

COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 13 1

CHAP TER V.

THE RUN FROM FORTH TO TAY : SNOW HUNTS.

1 876 . 1 7 th J anuary—Charl ie went to Mentone

to join Lady Campbel l . I went with him to Lord

Warden Hotel , Dover, on 1 7 th ; crossed to Calais

on 1 8th. Me t Charl ie Bethune and went on to

Paris with him (Meurice’

s Hote l ) ; next day to

Lyons,Marseil l es (Grand Hotel) : lunch at N ice

,

and Mentone on the N M . Lady Campbel l and

Clem were al ready there . I remained two or three

days. Me t T albot Cl ifton,who had come out in h is

yacht. I l eft Charl ie with them and went home

without stopping . T he cold al l through France

was awful . Charl ie l ent me his fur coat,which

was my salvation . When I got to Calais i t was so

mild that I sat on deck al l night. I got home

again on 3o th,and got out hunting at Pi tscottie next

day

Season 1 874 Sir Arthur Halkett commenced to

hunt the West of F i fe . I sent him Jack Shepherd

and twenty couple of hounds . He was then l iving

at Keav il,having let P itfirrane .

9G

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P ITFIRRANE ,

“7 th March, 1 876 .

MY DEAR T HOMSON,

“We have had our meeting,and the

hounds are to go on . George Prentice,Wi l ly and

Lesl ie Drysdale,F red Bruce and W. P . Adam

,a

committee of management ; I to continue as master ;the hounds to be hunted by a huntsman .

Lord M in to has promised his stables and

kennels, etc ., at Lochgel ly House provided none of

his people are to occupy the place during the

hunting season , which is not l ikely . I t i s a capital

place,has boilers

,men

’

s rooms,and a furnished

cottage for headman,which the forester who is in i t

says he wi l l let . £490 subscribed . I am to

continue to look after the proprietors,the keepers

and the coverts,and to be present in the field as

often as possible . I think that wil l work .

“We had a ‘fel l hunt ’ yesterday in a snowstorm .

Found a brace at Dunearn got away with one to the

B inn,and having to coast round the wal l s

,I kept

viewing him away from al l the woods,through the

gorse cover at M eadowfield,across the road in the

bottom to the Grangehill, through the flower garden

of Mr. J ohnstone’

s vi l la,that we pass in the rai lway.

and on to K inghorn . I could get no farther with

them than J ohnstone ’s garden wal l , and when we

got to Kinghorn the four hounds that were leading

all the way,

‘Reginald

,

’

Falstaff,’ ‘Saffron

’

and‘Benjamin

,

’ were not to be found . We had a l ine

across the rai lway, when a man said he had Seen the


x34 REM I N ISCENCES OF

7 9th bal l , and to London on T uesday, 2 I st , to give

evidence about a new mineral rai lway,and hope I

shal l get back for the show. T hose two couple of

hounds we missed the snowy M onday kil led the fox

al l right on the beach at K inghorn . A surfaceman

cut off his brush and the dri l l -sergeant skinned him.

T hey caught him in the sea.

“ Yours ever,

“ ARTIIUR HALKETT .

Season began 1 8th September,1 875. Hunting

days,seventy-eight ; foxes ki l led ,

nineteen and a half

brace ; blank days, one ; frost , eight. Season ended

2 4th Apri l , 1 876 .

A hound Show took place at Haddingt on in July,1 876 ,

chiefly got up by Mr. Baird-Hay of Belton . I

wrote and asked J ohn Walker,Sir Watkin Wynn ’

s

huntsman (who entered me to hounds in to

come and judge for us. The other judges were Mr.

W’

aldron H i l l,Master of the Otter Hounds

,and

Alec K inloch of Gilmerton . All the Masters of

Hounds in Scotland and the N orth of England

supported the Show . Lord Egl inton,Ayrshire ; Sir

J ohn Marjo ribank s, Berwickshire ; Major Browne ,N o rthumbe rland ; J ames Hope, Lothians ; George

Fenwick ,Tynedale ; J . J ohnstone , : Dumfriesshire ;

Colonel Buchanan,Lanark and Renfrew ; and Colonel

Anstruther T homson ,F i fe , sent hounds.

I n the c lass for unentered hounds, Tynedale were

first,F ife second ,

and Tynedale third . I n that for

stal l ion hounds,F i fe were first with Woodman ,

”

.Iton second with “Si lence Si lence

tdlt of having kil led a fox single—handed .

II” when a puppy was one of six couple

t i l led a cub when the body Of the pack

3m running another fox. Woodmanthe dead cub and gal loped on with it in hisiinancially the Show was not a success .

uses were considerable.

s Pattison was at Oxford when I was

the B icester Hounds and had hunted with

was a Suffolk man and had settled at

and had a large farm and bred a lot of

He wrote to me saying that he proposed to

e horses for sale in England or Scotland .

that I would have nothing to do with

atters,but if he sent them to Edinburgh I

that they were properly taken care of and

:he best advantage. I arranged with Mr.

dealer in Edinburgh,that they should be

to him and sold on commission . I then

Pattison to send ten . He wired back

nte rs,carriage or cart I repl ied

,

“Hunters,1g,

good colours ’ Pattison Shipped themDhcenician on the 1 8th September from

i t over to Glasgow to see them on arrival

Skrimage r, the veterinary surgeon , with me .

horse that was taken out had to be slung as

IS not room to get the box into the hold .

a beautiful bay horse. T hey hoisted him

let the truckle go with a run , and I thought

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he would be dashed to pieces,but they stopped the

Windlass with h is knees within two inches of the

pavement. The rest were safely landed in the box.

T hey had a capital passage,had never been off. their

feed,and were looking beautiful—better than our

horses at home . We did very wel l with some of

them .

Cost

£50 Rurie

33 L ofty

40 Gray ho rse

24 Chestnut

40 Bay mare

55 At co st price I ke pt a bay horse40 B lack ho rse at

T hree or four of them were smal l l ight horses.

T he arrangement wi th Gow was,he was to charge

hal f price for thei r keep ti l l sold and to have half

profit. T his being about the first lot that came over

the expense was very great,as he had to fi t up the

Ship on purpose . I t cost about £20 a horse

I wrote Pattison,

Send them bigger He

replied,

I have sent the two best horses in the

country,cost £90 each

,a very big price in this

country He sent six in this lot. T hey had a

dreadful ly bad passage ; one of the best horses was

chucked overboard,and the other d ied the day

after they landed . The others had al l the hair

rubbed off their quarters and tail s and looked

wretched . T hey had to be kept a long time before

fit to show and only fetched about cost price. T hat

ended the speculation as far as I was concerned .

While Pattison was staying with me he got a



telegram,

Louisa girl doing wel l (The telegrams

cost four shi l l ings a word .) He wired back,Hal

lelujah”

.

1 876 .—Hounds met at T easse s T ol l ; found in

Carhurlie Den ran wel l for -thirty-five minutes and

ki l led ran another fox to ground at the Lime H i l l s.

On 6th : N ovember there was an advertisement

of a large importation of Canadian horses. I went

over to Edinburgh,dined at the club

,and started off

with James Gow,the Edinburgh dealer

,and his man

M ike,and arrived at Liverpool on the morning of

the 7 th,but there was nothing among the horses

that we cared for. I got into the train and went to

Market Harborough ; attended dinner and presenta

tion to J amesT opham on 7 th .

I went to Dingley with Harry Hungerford after

the dinner ; next morning by train to Wel ford .

M i l l s gave me a mount on “Re indeer ” with the

Pytchley Hounds at Cold Ashby. After hunting

I got into the train to Rugby,and then on to Oxford

and Chippenham on my way to Badminton. I had

received a letter from the Duke of Beaufort saying

that he had gout in his elbow and could not ride,

and that if I l iked to come to Badminton I might

ride his horses for a week.

I had had no dinner,and at Swindon ate some

cold beef and pickled caul iflower,which was mouldy

and made me sick al l the time I was at Badminton .

I got a post chaise at Chippenham and arrived at

Badminton about two o ’clock in the morning,and

found the Duke and Sal isbury Ewart playing at

I38 REMINIsCENcES OF

cribbage in the bil l iard-room . With his usual kindness he sat up til l I arrived and had a pot of hot

soup on the fire for me .

9 th —N ext day hounds met at Doddington Ash.

I rode “Sl ippers ” and the “ Last Man

”

.

l o th.-N ewton Lodge

,Chesters.

1 1 th.

—Hul lavington,Bal loon ” and General

I had two horses every day,and J im Walker, the

duke ’s second horseman,to look after me. The

Last Man was one of Percy Wi l l iams’ horses.I went to London after hunting

,to Onslow

Square,my mother ’s. On Monday I went to

T attersal l ’s. Bought a very good-looking chestnut

horse cal led the “ Quack Doctor”

N ext day,

T uesday,i 4th,

put “ Quack Doctor into the train ,

and met the Queen ’s Staghounds at H i l l ingdon .

F rank Goodal l told me he had to keep the hounds

very high in consequence of the long distances home.

I found that my horse could gal lop and jump wel l ,but I could not take any l iberties on account of

condition,so I got behind and trotted on the l ine .

Charl ie was quartered at Windsor, so I went and

slept there the 1 5th. London next day and back

to Edinburgh by night train . T hursday,

1 6 th

F ife Hounds ; Kel ly T ol l . T hick fog and l ittl e

scent. Found a brace on Kel ly Law ; ran a ring.

Home Rule ” bolted with me and ran into a bog

covered with water ; pitched my head into it,wet

me through,got my face covered with mud

,and my

horn ful l of dirt. As soon as he was out of it—he

was in up to his shoulders—he ran away up the hi l l .


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he park,and finding the door open opposite

Ink,popped through it and crossed the river

which was in flood,ran over the farm of

Ity to the covert at Warout,and on to

Ie,where we had our first check

)p eful,” “ Marksman

”

and “ Fencer showed

)wn the side of the road,and a note on the

)ught the rest on. T he fox crossed the farm

uchar,ran up the Side Of the Lo chty burn

miles unti l opposite Sheddoway, where he

The water was very deep owing to the

Mr. Ridley, 7 th Hussars , who had already

he field a lead by‘

jumping the five -barred

gate on the Lesl ie railway,jumped off his

Id ran through the water up to his middle.

Anstruther,Haig

,Ri tchie

,Christie and I

about fifty yards higher up and Colonel

lower down without leaving their saddles,

ny of the field got wet j ackets. Forward

e farm of Fo sterton,across the branch l ine

.fe rmline and over the river Orr,hounds

CI] to our left,and about a mile further on

crossed the road we were in . Hounds about

)ehind him,ran up into a corner

,where there

ock of sheep and checked for a minute. A

at a house told me where.

he had gone. I

scove i‘ed I had lost a shoe ; kept on down

e to Dunnik ie r ( l eaving Balbeggie to our

At Dunnik ier I rode into the stableyard.

Ie lrose bringing out a horse,fol lowed by

7 on his feet. I said,

“ I ’ve lost a Shoe,l end


me that quad The horse was very fresh and the

gi rths loose. He would do nothing b iit plunge,and

the saddle sl ipped on to his tail,and when I got to

the other end of the park I had to get off and put

the sadd le straight. Meantime the hounds had run

across the park of Dunnikie r, across Hayston farm ,

nearly to Kirkcaldy,and were coming up the den that

leads from Kirkcaldy to Dunnikie r. When I got tothe west lodge at Dunnik ier some of the hounds

were swimming in the pond,and Winnifred ”

standing on the island looking into the water. I

tried al l round about,and thought that she was not

looking after nothing,but could make nothing of i t.

Mr. Oswald wrote about four months later

DUNN IKIER, 4th March, 1 87 7 .

MY DEAR JACK,

“ The mystery is solved ,and the gal lant fox

who brought you here in the beginning of December

is no more. On T hursday we were curl ing on the pond

here , and under the ice we saw the dead body of an

animal,and many opinions were hazarded as to what

i t could be Some declared it to be a dog,some a hare

,

some a fox. Sainty and I determined to have a post

mortem examination as soon as weather would permit ,so after an arduous struggle with the ice yesterday

,we

reached the spot and found the dead body of thefox .

We gave him an honourable burial . We tried to

preserve his brush,but the hair came off with the

exception of the tusks no memento is left of the

good fox. The hounds were right I saw them

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Swim to the island . I think he must have hid him

sel f in the reeds and was so exhausted that he could

not get out.

Hounds had ki l led him in the water and he had

J . T . OSWALD .

April,1 87 7 .

—T he 7th Hussars bal l in Edinburgh .

I t was capital ly done in every respect. Two days

after I went on to the Lomond H i l l with the Westof F ife Hounds

,and stuck in the snow several

times.

T o Edinburgh. Drove Randolph Wemyss’scoach to the Lothian Hunt Steeplechases—an old“ Defiance

”

horses ; they had no mouths. Randolph had made

a very pleasant party— Captain Reid and his wife,

coach with two pair of Croall’

s j ob

pretty and pleasant Byng and Lawley, 7 th Hussars ;

Harry Gibson Craig Captain Campbel l,Ballyve olan.

We got back at a quarter to eight.

T hursday, i 9 th Apri l . -Lour Races. I rode a

steeplechase against Charl ie Gardyne . He rode

F i fer,”

late “ Quack Doctor,the chestnut horse

which I had bought at T attersal l ’s and sold to Gow

in Edinburgh . I rode “ T op thorn”

. He jumped

al l the fences l ike oil,and won by a length and a

half. Gardyne weighed i 3st. 31b . and I i 3st. 1 3 lb.

without our saddles. We had a beautiful day and

a good meeting. Our race caused great “ sensation

and they cheered awful ly.

The run from the Forth to the Tay .—3o th


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congratulating the horse on having come so we l l

when down he came a crasher,tore al l the buttons

off the knee of my breeches and gave my funny bone

a nasty smash . Curiously enough he did not break

his knees,but took a great piece of skin off the point

of his shoulde r,and was not seriously hurt.

T he fol lowing poem is by J ohn Shairp ,

Principal of the Col lege of St. Andrews, my Old

school fel low at Edinburgh Academy

Hark,hal lo ! brave heart s

’Twas the hounds I heard

With the sound of the ir go ing

All the land is stirred ;

They have made e very p easantFrom work stand stil l ,With gazers they

’ ve crownedEvery crag and h il l .

And the p loughman cried loudBy my team I stood

And heard them crash ing

Yon o ld fir-wo od ;Down yon ash-tree river-banks,Where the sunb eam s S lant and fal l ,

F lashed the dap p led hounds,Making the dens musical

Fo r swe e te r they b eThan any chim e ofb e l ls

T he m e lodie s that l inge rAll the year in you de l ls ,

T il l the hounds come by and awake them.

And the pedlar answeredFrom b eneath h is loadAt no on th ey went stream ingRight o

’er my road

From the farmsteads the lassesRushed out to se e

How they skimmed l ike swal lowsOve r p lough and lea ;


As they went to the h il lsWhat a head th ey bare

L ike snow drift scuddingOn the stormy air

And few were the steeds could o’

ertake them .

Forward waved the She pherdThey are west away,

On the moorlands start l ingThe p lover grey ;

Ever on as th ey sp edMore mute they grew ,

And the riders waxed fewer,And yet more few ,

T i l l on ly one hunter attended.

And the widow , as she Sat

On her lone co ttage flo or,Heard the ir cry through the darkOn the m idnight moor.

And at morn cam e the worn houndsHome , one by one ,

And the huntsmen knewThat the Chase was done

N e ver knew how nor whe re it ended.

My mother, aged ninety-two , died on 2 9th October

at 79 Onslow Square , London , and was buried at

K ilconquhar on 2nd N ovember.

EASTON LODGE,DuNMow, 4th N ovember , 1 87 7 .

MY DEAR JACK,

“I have seen in the papers that you have

lost your mother,and I cannot

,although I know

that at her great age (ninety-two) such an event

could not have been unexpected,refrain from writing

you a few words of sympathy. I can never forget

al l your kindness to me when my dear father died .

VOL . 11 . IO


And this brings i t al l back to me again—more thaneleven years have elapsed. Who could have foretold that so long a l i fe would have been her portion .

He r end was I trust painless,and her charm and

grace of manner can never be forgotten by those

who knew her. I should l ike to say a thousand

things to you,but I know that you wil l be l ieve in

my affection for you without many words . My l ady

desires me to assure you that she sincerely j oins with

me in al l that I have wi‘itten.

Bel ieve me,

Affectionately yours,

ROSSLYN .

2 8th J anuary, —A frosty day ; no one out.

I rode Bachelor only Hastings and myself were

with the b ounds. Ran to Balcarres ; the fox and

hounds went bang over the face of the rock. I rode

along the walk to the tower and heard a voice below

say T his i s grand Wh en I got down I found

Rosie on “ Beauty without a saddle. We gal loped

on and in the Double dykes met a fish cadger.“ Have you seen the hounds ?

”

Yes,they’ l l be

at Pittenweem by this time.

” I t was pitch dark.

When we got to the end of the Double dykes weheard “Who -whoop ! ” and found J ohn Bel l and

Carnegie. T hey had picked up the fox and

chucked it on the top of the hedge . T hey were

riding out to go to tea somewhere, heard the cry,

and just got up in time to see the hounds catch their

fox.



rather bored with him,and jumped a high rai l into

a potato field thinking l would get rid of him ; but

he would not be denied,and flew over it

,l anding

on his horse ’s neck . He came up to me and said

solemnly,Do you always ride about people’s pol icies

in thi s manner ? I said Oh,yes

,I always go where

ever I l ike,but I won ’t come here if you don ’t l ike

it ”. I did not say I d id not l ike it.”

N ext morning

I received the fol lowing letter from him

DURIE , 1 7 th September , 1 878.

DEAR SIR,

The woods and grounds around my house

I wish you to consider as available to you in the

pursuance of fox-hunting,whenever circumstances

bring you to the vicinity . T he denseness of the

cover,smal l in extent

,affords shelter to the fox.

I am,dear Sir

,

“ Yours tru ly,

“ ROBERT CHR IST IE .

T o COLONEL T HOM SON , Charle ton.

My dear old friend George Whyte-Melvi l le waskil led out hunting. He and I were blooded by old

J ohn Walker on the same day in 1 830,and were at

E ton together. Archie Little sent me the fol lowing

account of the accident ' He was gal loping across

a heavy ploughed field and his horse fel l with him as

if shot . Whether he crossed his legs or stumbled

where the field had been cross-ploughed,no one

knows. Poor dear Melvi l le fel l with great force on

his head and was kil led on the spot. His widow is


anxious that he Should be buried here. H e often

said,

‘As the tree fal l s, there let it l ie’

. I think it

possible that you might attend the funeral . Pray

come to Upton.

”

Mr. Whyte-Me lv i l le wished the

funeral to take place at St . Andrews , but Mrs.

Whyte-Melvil le was so anxious that i t Should take

place at T etbury,that he agreed . Lady Catherine

was very i l l at the time. As soon as I heard of

George ’ s death I went to Mount Melvi l le. Mr.

Melvi l l e said Lady Catherine was so il l that he

could not leave her. I said,

“ I wil l attend the

funeral and report to you al l that happens I

went from London with Lord Wolverton ,Francis

Lord Rosslyn,and Robert Grimston .

T hese verses,the last written by Whyte-Melvil l e ,

were publ ished in the World the day we attended the

funeral

Fal l ing leafand fading tree ,Line s ofwh ite on a Sul len sea,

Shadows rising on you and me ;

The swal lows are making them ready to fly,

Whe e l ing out on a windy Sky

Go od-bye , Summer—good bye , good-bye !

Hush —a vo ice from the far awayL isten and learn it se ems to say

All the to-morrows shal l b e as to day

The cord is frayed, the cruise is dry,

The l ink must break and the lam p must dieGood-bye , Ho pe—good-bye , good-bye

What are we waiting fo r ? Oh , my heart

K iss m e straight on the b rows, and partAgain —again ! My heart ! my h eart

Wh at are w e wait ing fo r, you and I

A p leading lo o k—a st ifled cry

Good-bye for e ve r—good-bye , go od-bye

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After the funeral I had a long talk with Mrs.

Whyte-Melvi l le,and was truly sorry for her. I

went home with Little to T etbury Upton and re

mained that night and returned to London next day.

A meeting was held in Lord Wolverton ’s house,

Carlton T errace , and a committee formed for the pur

pose of getting up a suitable memorial . LordWolverton

,Mr. Frederic Chapman and mysel f were elected

secretaries. T he subscription was l iberal ly responded

to and we col lected about £ 2000. We put up a cross

and tombstone over the grave at T etbury a memorial

window in the Guards ’ Chapel in London a fountain

at St. Andrews ; and gave 500 to the Hunt Serv

ants’ Benefit Society. A great many huntsmen and

hunt servants subscribed to the memorial .

Mrs. Whyte-Melvi l le requested me to ask Boehmto make a bust of George . I t happened that Boehm

sat in church in the pew behind Melvi l le , so he knew

every hair on his head,and he made a very beautifu l

bust,of which he gave me a smal l copy in terra-cotta.

Some time after I said to Boehm ,We have not a

l ikeness of George on horseback ”

. He made a pen

and-ink sketch . Mrs. Melv i l le sent me his coat and

hunting-whip,but his boots had been given away. I

went to many boot-makers in London , but could get

no information . On going to Mr. Bartley in Oxford

Street , he said ,We did not make them

,but they

were the same pattern as those the Hon . Robert

Grimston wears I went straight to Mr. Grim

ston’

s house . He was out hunting, and while I

was at the door his valet came upstairs with a pair



cider too She said,

“ Cider beant good for you,

ye’

nll get cramp in the night ”. He got his cider,

and we sat and chatted and drank whisky and hot

water ti l l the middle of the night.

Saw the foxhounds in kennel next day. Harry

Seabright , huntsman . Returned to London in the

evening.

I st February, 1 879 .—Snow hunt at Ayton H i l l ;

ten degrees of frost ; seventeen miles to covert ; got

there two lad ies in a sledge and the field on

foot ; five inches of snow ; deep drifts ; very clear

and sti l l . Lots of foxes,but a long time before we

got b ounds to settle,and never could ge t a view.

Marksman hunted a line by himsel f, digging his

nose into the snow at every pad -mark ; the other

hounds rushed at him and knocked him off the l ine.

Kept touching it up to Glenduck ie,a large wood ,

and not so much snow under the trees ran hard and

three foxes broke. I went away with one,but

having only eight couple,went back to the other

lot . Ran back to Ayton H i l l , and got a V iew at

him round the hil l,and away as hard as they could

go into Glenduck ie again . When I got to the topof the hi l l I saw the fox on the top of H igham H i l l

going towards the T ay,past Barnbreich to the

banks of the river. T he drift ice was thirty or forty

yards broad . Hunted on ice along the edge of the

water,sometimes in mud

,the tide being low ; some

times a drive along the footpath and then on the ice

again,nearly three miles

,where a broad tidal d itch

runs at right angles into the river. When the bounds

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got to the corner of the'

ice they looked for a moment

and plunged into the river. I t was only about two

miles across to Forfarshire . The T ay was coming

down l ike a torrent and huge blocks of ice crashing

against each other. All the hounds were in the

water except Rummager Just then I noticed

the spoor of the fox in the mud where he had turned

up the ditch . I whistled and Rummager ” threw

his tongue. The body of the b ounds immediately

swam back,hunted up the ditch

,got a V iew

,ran up

the road and into the town of N ewburgh,and kil led

him in the street. Only Fred Whitehal l and I

present. A capital hunt.

The requisites for snow hunting are a thorough

knowledge of the country—gates,gaps and ditches ;

a quiet horse that wil l j ump standing,his feet stopped

with gutta-percha and rough-shod ; leave his head

loose when riding over ice and do not go too Sl ow ;

not too large a pack ; no hounds that are incl ined

to hang on the l ine. Scent varies as much in snow

as when the ground is clear. I have been out with

eleven degrees of frost,and a cl ipping scent ; some

days four or five inches of s lush and water,sti l l a

fair scent. The worst is when the snow is melted

and the ground carries,but the bone i s not out of it.

Foxes are very difficult to find in snow,as they see

so far and are Off without waiting to be found,

and they lie in all sorts of places. When there ismuch snow on the branches it fal l s and spoi ls scent

in cover, and on bad scenting days hounds are often

a long time before they wil l settle to it,repeatedly

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crossing the l ine without taking any notice of it. I

have not had a hound injured in snow hunting but

by accident.

1 8th May—George Cheap e , J im T urnbul l and I

agreed to go and have a tod hunt in the H ighlands.

T urnbul l being Lord Moray’s factor

,got leave from

him. I started by early train ; met J ack Shepherd

at T hornton with four couple of hounds and four

terriers,a sack of meal and a black pony cal led

Rag”

. George Cheap e j oined us at Stirl ing,

having come down from London . We went by train

to Cal lander,put the sack of meal on the pony’s

back and walked four and hal f miles to M i l ton , J ohn

Stewart’s . He i s famous for his H ighland cattle and

gets many prizes at the shows. T urnbul l came down

later. He l ived in the keeper ’s house and we dined

there. I t was a hundred yards off and cal led Blair

garry.

Having fed the hounds and put the pony straight,

we took the terriers and walked up to the top of

Ben Ledi and tried the cairns,but there is such an

extent of them that it would take a whole pack to

draw them. N ext morning we got up at dayl ight

and took the b ounds and again went up the hil l .

Tunnard,who was staying in the neighbourhood

,

met us there. I t was very cold in the morning. We

tried al l the glens and walked til l we were tired,and

saw nothing. The fol lowing day we drew al l the

glens west of the house. I rode my pony as far as I

could and left him at a farm-house . We then walked

on and on til l we were tired. T urnbul l ’s servant had



about the place except Mrs. Campbel l,and I had to

feed the hounds and then do up the pony,and the

other men did not come in for some time. I was

pretty wel l t ired and fel l asleep directly after d inner.

I wel ted one of the b ounds for running a hare , and he

would not come on with me and was left out al l

night. N ext day he came to the kennel while the

b ounds were out,and finding none there

,trotted on

to Cal lander and went on ti l l he got to Doune. He

there lost his way and remained wild on the hi l l .

He would not let any one come near him . He did

no harm , kil led no sheep as far as we could learn ,

and at last was shot by one of Lord Moray ’s keepe rs.

Poor J im T urnbul l met with an awful death. He

and a companion were sai l ing in a smal l boat on the

Forth . At St. Colme the boat upset and they both

got on to a rock. T he steamboat to Aberdour passed

near them and took no notice of their Signal s as they

thought they were people bathing. T he tide was

rising and they were both drowned in front of T urn

bul l ’s house.


CHAP TER V I.

JACK RUSSELL .

1 879 .—In March the Rev .

’

J . Russel l came to

visit us at Charleton .

TORDOWN , 14th March, 1 879.

MY DEAR JACK,

“ I am just starting for T rafalgar Lawn,

and wil l report progress before I close this letter.

I have so made up my mind to start on Monday

morning for the Land o ’ Cakes,that I shal l not only

be grieved on Bury ’s account,but sadly disappointed

on my own,i f I cannot do so. AS you do not hunt

ti l l Wednesday,I shal l take it quietly

,and sleep in

London ; i f I do make a start of it on Monday

night,a young widow

,whom I am engaged to marry

—not to mysel f,but to another—wil l

,I know, take

me in and do for me. She i s a sister of Froude

Bel lew ’s wife,and a big ’

un for a youngster ! All

kind regards.“ Yours for ever affectionately,

“

J . RUSSELL.

T rafalgar Lawn,

Bury is mending,

though not wel l enough to leave his bed,but he

wishes me to go to you on Monday, and so I shal l

start accordingly,at least I hope so.

”

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He arrived in Edinburgh on the i 8th and at

tended the N ew Club bal l .

1 9th - T hick fog ; met at kennels at twelve

o’

clock.

2 3rd,Sunday—Mr. Russel l preached at P itten

weem . Pat Carnegy was at Charleton .

On 2 4th had Jack Russel l photoed at St.

Andrews.

2 5th .—Me t at Latho ckar ; very hard ; and went

to Lour.

2 6th —Went to Finavon to d inner.2 7 th .

—I went to Edinburgh with J ack Russel l .

He went home , and I returned to Finavon.

“TORDOWN ,

Monday morning, 3 1 st March, 1879.

MY DEAR JACK,

“ You wil l have received,I hope

,my

laconic epistle announcing my safe arrival at the

South M olton station on Saturday,but I got home

al l right,and yesterday went through my usual

duties in Swimbridge Church . Another letter ar

rived from Lady Portsmouth yesterday begging me

to dine and sleep at Eggesford to-day to meet

Lord Camperdown , whoever he may be , so I am off

again ! and to-morrow go to I vybridge,where

Parker writes me they have been free from any

impediment to hunting since the 2 4th of February !

Lucky dogs ! Eh ?“ I can

’

t find words Strong enough to express

my thanks to yoursel f and Mrs. T homson,including


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I walked my pony from hil l to hil l last week,

for I was in too much pain to al low him to gallop,

and saw as much as I could of the different runs,and

perhaps as much as most of the other noble sports

men . But I am now mending fast,and hope to be

wel l enough to r ide a run yet before the season is

oven“ Again thanking you al l for my pleasant Scottish

outing , and with best love to you al l ,Bel ieve me

,my dear J ack

,

“ Yours affectionately,

“

J . RUSSELL.

J ust off to a parish meeting.

COLL IP RIEST , T IVERTON ,

“2 6th june, 1 879.

MY DEAR JACK,

I hope that you and yours got back in safety

yesterday morning to your old earth in F i feshire. I

came here last night at ten o ’clock , thinking the

school meeting was fixed for to-day, but the gather

ing is to take place to-morrow,after which I mount

my horse for dulce domam .

I go to London again to marry Lord Rock

savage on the 1 6th of July. Let me know for

certain when you are al l—two couple—coming to ‘

me

for the stag-hunting. N0 time for more, but every

kind wish to you al l,

“ Yours ever affectionately,“

J . RUSSELL.


“TORDOWN, BARNSTAP LE,

“2 8th july ,

1 879.

MY DEAR JACK ,

“When are you al l coming to me ?

T he Prince of Wales comes to Dunster Castleon T hursday the 2 ISt of August to hunt with the

staghounds near Porlock on the 2 2nd,and wil l be

off again on the 2 3rd to Devonport,and Colonel

K ingscote writes to say,and so does Mrs. Lut

trel l,that I am to meet him there . That c ircum

stance,however

,need make no difference to you or

yours,for Mary wil l take care of you for the few

hours I shal l be absent . The Prince says that he‘wil l not come at al l if his advent is advertised in

the papers,

’ hence I head this paragraph ‘Private’

.

“N ow

,you are to make your own game , and I

wil l help to play it with you. I have three horses

for the girl s,al l of wh ich wil l carry them wel l

,I

believe—two of them wil l,I know. You wil l bring

your own horses,and they shal l each have a large

loose-box in which to disport themselves,and I

have a l ittle carriage- it has seen some service

certainly -to drive Mrs. T homson about, and show

her some of our pretty V iews.“The Staghound fixtures as they now stand

are : T uesday,1 2 th August

,Cloutsham ; Friday ,

1 5th

August,Hawk comb e Head . I want to keep the latter

for F riday,2 2 nd

,but the first four days are always

in the Porlock country,and therefore within easy

,

very easy,distance of M inehead and Dunster, but

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horses and carriages wil l be at a premium al l the

time.

‘The Luttrel l Arms ’ is the Dunster hostelry

,

‘T he Feathers ’ the M inehead ditto. N ow I have

said my say,let me hear yours . All kind love and

regards .

Ever yours affectionately,

“

J . RUSSELL.

My horses shal l meet you anywhere,and on

any day you wil l name.

”

TORDOWN ,BARN STAP LE,

9th August, 1 879.

Many happy returns of this day to you,my dear

J ack ! I drank it this morning in a cup of tea be fore

I left my bed,and I wil l d rink it again

,in a glass of

the old Falernian,before I retire to it this evening.

“ My plans for the coming campaign are as

follows. I Shall hunt with the Staghounds everyday from home ti l l Friday the 2 1 5t . On that day I

am o rdered to accompany the Prince from Dunster

Castle to Hawkcombe Head,and

,of course

,shal l go

there the day before and return with the party

(unless the hounds fin i sh on this side of the moor to

Dunster), and come home next day. T his i s the

only engagement I have,or shal l make , before you

and yours come here. I can take you al l in,in a

smal l way,very comfortably

,horses and man-servant.

“ Let me know for certain,as soon as you can

,

when you wil l be here. The sooner the better for

me,for I want to look upon your genial Scotch faces

again , The horses are al l crying‘Come and ride


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you are coming here,and gave me a sovereign to

wards the damage fund . Bisse tt’

s father died last

Wednesday ; he wil l be out , and I hope at Dunster

Castle next week .

You must come here by the GreatWestern Linefrom Paddington or you wil l be detained in Barn

staple no end of time . I wil l telegraph to you at

Charleton by-and-bye . Boxes al l ready for your

horses, and lots of old hay, corn and bean s—vetches

i f you approve— I always give them after hunting.

Love to you all,

Ever yours affectionately,

“

J . RUSSELL.

On 1 6th August sent George Kemp with

J ohnny Brady ” and “Home Rule ” to T o rdown .

\Ve,wife

,Kit and Rosie

,fol lowed on the 1 8th .

Staghounds met next day at Mounsey H i l l Gate ;fog and wet and no sport. J ack mounted K it on his

old black horse— he was very slow and short of wind— and Rosie on a pony which be borrowed some

where. He also borrowed a four-wheel pony trap

which J ohnny Brady went in,and I rode

“ Home Rule”

. We drove over to Lynton on the

2 1 st,and joined T om Arnold (Atherstone) at the inn .

2 2 nd was the Prince ’s day ; Hawkcombe Head .

We drove over in pony carriage and met the horses

there. An immense crowd of al l sorts. M e t Char les

\Villiams Bassett. Had not seen him Since he lent

me a horse at the Portsmouth Arms with Ports

mouth ’s hounds in 1 87 2 .


Dragon says : “The numbers present were

estimated at and of horsemen to

T hey came from nearly every hunt in England .

When Arthur Heal arrived on a wel l-bred chestnut,

and his whip,George Southwel l

,with fifteen couple

of hounds,a knot of sportsmen gathered round them

Earl Fortescue,Lord Ebrington

,Colonel Anstruther

T homson and two daughters from F i fe,Mr. and Mrs .

Froude Bel lew,and Mr. N icholas Snow

,those wel l

known T he Master (Mr. Fenwick B issett)unfortunately was not out

,so the treasurer

,Mr. Sam

Warren,took his place . At a quarter to twelve arrived

a carriage‘

and four with posti l l ions in scarlet jackets .

I n the carriage were the Prince,Prince Louis of

Battenberg,Lord Char les Beresford

,Re v . J ohn

Russel l,and thei r host

,Mr. Luttrel l of Dunster

Castle . T hey drove sl owly round so that they

might be seen by al l,and had a hearty welcome

,

and then drove off to a house to get their horses.’

On trotting back to the moor we found Heal in

Lord Lovelace ’s big covert tufting with three couple

and something seen before them,which the practised

eye of the natives proclaimed to be a stag. T hey

tried to drive him out,but it was no use

,but a young

stag came sail ing up to us. The hounds were brought ,but he was not their game

,so trotted off to the deer

park at Oare. Several stags were soon on foot,and

one was sail ing away towards Badsw orthyWood . I

don ’t know where they ran to,but it was a sort of

semicircle,and luckily the Prince nicked in and saw

the finish in the river near the Doones Houses. The

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stag turned up the Stream with the hounds in V iew ;

they drove him up and down the stream '

and pul led

him down . Arthur got hold,and gave his knife to

the Prince,who gave the coup de grdce. T here was

a crowd in the path in front of me,and I scrambled

down a steep place to where the Prince was standing.

He had a patch of blood on his cheek,one of the

farmers having taken the l iberty of b lueding him

H is horse was on the other side of the water,and he

plopped in and waded across. Dragon ” adds :

Colonel Anstruther T homson astoni shed even the

natives by riding his horse down where some were

even afraid to lead ”

We stayed that night at the inn at E xford .. Ro

’

s

pony had lost both its fore-shoes,and she had

wandered away towards Barnstaple ; lucki ly some

one overtook her and sent her back . She did no t

get in ti l l nine o ’clock. The beds were very smal l,

and the house ful l of people carousing,so we had

not a very good night. One of the girl s Slept on the

flo on

2 3rd—We returned to T ordown.

2 4th,Sunday— Attended Sw inbridge Church .

2 5th .

—Went to Anstey ; Froude Bel lew ’s to

lunch.

2 8th .-\Ve rode to M inehead to T he Feathers

I nn and got wet through. T he pony-carriage with

luggage was a long way behind us,so I sent the

girls to bed and I dressed the horses to keep mysel f

warm .

2 9 th— Staghounds met at Crowcomb .



Deacon,Master). The Fife Hounds met ou the

same day at E l ie. Rosie was riding my horse“ Victor

,

” a very hard puller and a roarer. Hounds

ran very hard to Kilbrackmont,about thirty-five

minutes. Colonel Babington and Rosie were first al l

the way. Hounds ran through the covert at K il

brackmont. Rosie gal loped away straight across the

field and got an awful fal l over a wal l rather up hi l l

and into a road. Her groom,Woods

,on Bachelor

,

instead of fol lowing her,went straight up the field

and through a gate. When he got round to whereshe was

,she had just got upon her feet and the horse

was gal loping away. The blood was pouring down

from her face . He jumped off his horse , and asked

her i f she could come home in a carriage,then he

left her in charge of Mr. Balfour and rode home for

the carriage.

Her mother wrote I sent for Doctor Lumgair,and I got towels and sponges

,sal-volati le and eau

de-Cologne. As I was going out I met Mr. Balfour

in back drawing-room,who relieved me by tel l ing

me that it was a severe cut.

I drove in the brougham to Mr. Scott’s house .

She was lying on a bed,E l la E rskine with her.

She told E l la that she did not wish me to see it,so I

was sent downstairs to wait ti l l she walked down,

bare-headed (hat torn to pieces). She was bleeding

and did lose a great deal of blood . At the door of

Char leton stood Doctors Lumgair and Palm . She

walked to my bedroom and was placed upon the

sofa. T hey chloroformed her. She took an unusual


amount of chloroform to send her off. E l la E rskine

had fol lowed us,and up to this time was in the room .

I thought it unnecessary that She should remain

longer,so she left. They then stitched up the

wound with si lver wire and gave her brandy. I got

her undressed (the doctors staying in the house) and

I and Christie helped her into bed . I shal l sleep in

your dressing-room . The maid wi l l Sit up to-night

with her. The doctors are coming to-night at seven

o ’clock to cut off the half of the si lver wire now

sticking out.”

LARGO, 5th February , 1 880,

Thursday Evening, p m .

MY DEAR SIR,

“ I was at Charleton when your telegram

arrived to-night,and was sorry I could not reply in

course . I wi l l telegraph in the morning,which you

wil l receive before this ; however I cannot in a

telegram give you particulars .

M iss Rosie’s horse in attempting a stone wal l

fai led to get over it,and rol led over

,throwing her on

her face. I fear she had struck on a stone . Her

face is a good deal cut,her l ip on the right side from

the nose is completely cut through,and it is

separated also along the bottom Of the nose to the

left side . I t was al l hanging down and is a very

dirty lacerated wound. I mmediately on receiving

intel l igence of the accident,Dr. Palm and I drove

along,put her under chloroform

,and careful ly stitched

it. T he parts are very much swol len,but to-night

she seems very comfortable and complains l ittle,if at

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all. Had the wound been a clear inc ised wound it

would have been l itt le trouble,but it is a nasty

ragged,dirty wound

,and I fear may not heal nicely

without leaving a considerable blemish ; however inthat I may be mistaken . I t is beautiful ly put in

posit ion with si lver stitches,and the edge of the

wound with a hare-l ip needle,and I earnestly hope it

may do wel l . She has Slept a l ittle th is afternoon,

and feels,on the whole

,better than might have been

expected ; but of course the most critical part is to

come. However you may keep your mind at rest so

far that there i s no injury to any internal organs,and

that I am not apprehensive as to danger to her l ife.

I f al l goes on wel l,I wil l not telegraph

,but

should the least anxiety occur I wil l at -once make

you aware of it. I would have telegraphed this

afternoon,but Mrs. T homson assured me it was

unnecessary as She was to do it herself.

I am in haste,

Yours very sincerely,

“ GEORGE LUMGAIR.

COLONEL AN STRUTHER THOMSON .

I came away next day from Audley Wood,down

to Edinburgh by night mail,to Markinch on Saturday

,

and drove home. I found her in bed quite cheery,

but She could not speak,and could only suck milk

or soup through a tube . Dr. Lumgair treated her

with great ski l l , and she soon got better, but had a

very big lump on her l ip. T he chief difficulty was

to keep her from laughing. Some years after she had


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How did you manage that ? ” You were staying

at Buxton when I was a schoolboy at home for the

hol idays,and you were good enough to al low me to

dance with you .

”

One night we dined with Mr. Lane-Fox,Chandos

Pole,Lords Wenlock , Maccle sfie ld

,Harewood

,and

usual party . After d inner we heard of the dynamite

explosion in St . J ames ’s Square . Chandy Pole and

I walked down to SirWatkin Wynn ’s house,found

al l the dining-room windows broken and the area

ful l of rubbish . SirWatkin was not wel l at the timeand had to be on the sofa. We rang the bel l and

asked how he was . T he servant said,SirWatkin

has gone to bed and says he don ’ t care a damn for

anything ”

. We then went on to Scotland Yard .

T he inspector on duty was the one who took charge

of the four-in-hand meetings,and as he knew Chandy

and me he al lowed us to go in . A cab was stand ing

in the lane covered with bricks and could not be got

out. I don’

t know what had become of the horse .

A deal of damage was done and wal l s blown down .

I went to see B i l l embark at Southampton for

I ndia,and wrote to his mother

“2 1 st August, 1 880,

Saturday morni ng.

Started to catch at Victoria,found that it

went from London Bridge,and had to wait till 1

Me t W. Burn . He started from Duke Street,drove

to Waterloo,then to Victoria

,then to London

Bridge,was too late and returned to Victoria. T hey


put on their uniforms in the train,and we arrived at

Portsmouth harbour about“ Prince Leopold was in the train . Went on

board at once and got luggage into cabins. Bil l ’s

cabin,NO. 2 5 in Pandemonium ’

; three places ;Langford (Mar ines), his companion ,

a nice pleasant

fel low. Cabin about 9 ft . high ,and about IO x 1 2 .

‘Pandemonium ’ i s a large space in the middle

of the ship on third deck. When the Ship is crowdedthey sl ing cots in it ; at present i t i s vacant. T he

air i s pumped in by a steam-engine,and makes a

draught al l through the ship. T he l ights in B il l ’s

berth are just above the water mark.

The Prince ofWales came on board with thePrincess

,Prince Leopold

,Mrs. Cornwal l is West

,

Prince Edward Saxe—Weimar,General H igginson ,

etc. T hey mooned about the ship. B il l and I were

standing together. T he Prince stopped and shook

hands with me,and said

,Any one belonging to you

going out ? ’ ‘Yes,sir

,my son .

’

He held out his

hand to Bi l l,and asked where and what regiment .

Bil l on duty is very different from B il l at home . He

picked himself up to attention,and answered

,Luck

now,sir.

’ ‘Yes,sir

,

’ as sharp as a sergeant-major.

He said,I must keep up the credit of my regiment

,

’

and had a nice pair of white kid gloves,and his cap

on three hairs,but one tuft crept up behind in spite

of his dil igent burnishing. The worst of it was we

could get nothing to eat as the bar was shut up.

We met Sir Henry F letcher,George Moncrieff

,

Sir Archibald Lamb (his brother is in Rifles), Lord

1 74 REMIN ISCENCES OF

Alexander Russel l and wife (he had two sons On

board), Lord Raglan (son in Rifles), Vans Agnew

(son in Rifles), David K inloch from Hythe,St.

Lawrence (quartered Portsmouth), Farren (GrenadierGuards), R. Lloyd Anstruther and his wife (Rifles),Maj or Bul ler (Rifles). T here were lots of people

,

and they al lowed almost everybody to go on board

who had no business there.

T he Queen came after the Prince left and

walked round the Ship. Lord Churston presented

al l the Rifle officers to her. She went away about

and then we were told that they would not sai l

t i l l next morning. Officers on leave on shore to be

on board at seven o ’clock. B il l and Burn appl ied

for leave,and we started off in search of dinner at

George Hotel,and they went on board again about

“On Sunday morning I got up at 6 .30,

walked

down to ship,and got there at a quarter to eight .

Found Bil l dressing. He announced his intention

of wearing a beard,as it i s d ifficul t to Shave when

the ship rol l s. H is marine had dressed and gone

out,and he declared he was a capital fel low . Lang

ford came in while I was there and I was introduced,

and he seemed very nice . We then went to breakfast

al l together. T hey are charged three and Sixpence

per day,eat and drink as much as they l ike—port,

sherry,claret and one pint of beer ; i f they don

’

t

drink,they pay two shil l ings and Sixpence for food .

“ T hey have l ittle printed bits of paper cal led‘chits

,

’ on which they write what they want extra,



‘Auld lang Syne ’ as long as we could hear ; and the

ship gl ided , as the Prince said ,

‘ l ike a great white

swan ,’ out of our sight. The captain ’s name is

Parsons ; the tonnage is about and the horse

power She i s a very fine ship; Farrar and

I walked back to the George Hotel .

I returned to London and next day started for

Porlock.

P ORLOCK,

TUESDAY, 24th August, 1 880.

MY DEAR WIFE,

“ I do wish that you were here. I t is a

lovely place and would do you good. But it is a

far way from home,and I came down on a wi ld

goose chase. I intended to have left London at

if your telegram came in time. I got it at

and started at three . When I got to SwindonI looked in the F ield newspaper

,and saw Staghounds

Hunt,Monday instead of T uesday. The Sporting

Gaz ette had advertised T uesday. I was in the depths

of despair,and would have turned back if I could .

I got to M inehead in the dark,and came on

here in a ‘shay’

from ‘The Feathers

’

; arrived 9 .30,

and found Jack Russel l had gone out to dinner with

the K inglakes. My horse had been left ready al l

the morning. Mary,J ack ’s housekeeper said

,

‘You

had better go down to Dr. Kinglake’

s too,and trotted

off with me . T hey gave me food and were very kind .

I had not seen Mrs. Kinglake for thirty-three years.

She i s very pleasant and nice. Her mother and


George Loch ’s mother were sisters,and we used to

be great friends.

J ack is ful l of plans to keep me here for a month,

and I should l ike to stay for Friday ’ s hunt,as I have

seen nothing yet,and we are going to ride up to

Oare,N icholas Snow

’s,to-day

,and dine with the

K inglakes.“The hounds meet at T riscombe Stone

,Friday.

T here is a church to be Opened at M inehead which

the Rev . has to attend . My idea i s to go on to stay

with Froude Bel lew,near Dulverton

,that night

,and

after hunting,Friday

,go to T aunton

,and get home

as soon as I can . The Rev . proposes to ride from

here to T riscombe,and lead my horse (pretty wel l

at his age) rather more than twenty miles. He i s

rather in trouble with the clergyman who has taken

his duty,who is not satisfied

,as there is no fruit for

the chi ldren ; so they have spli t, and he wan ts some

one,or must go home for next Sunday. On Friday

he goes to his old friend,Rev . W. Luttrel l

,at

Q uantox Head .

“ I slept in a butcher ’s house,Dick Riddler

,a

keen stag-hunter. The rooms so low I can just stand

up , but clean as new pins ; the W indows so near the

ground that I had to sit on the floor to Shave.

Love to al l the babes,

Yours affectionately,

“

J . A. T

We rode to N icholas Snow ’s,

Stars of the

West,”

and got him to go out cub-hunting. He

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gave us some tea at two o’ clock,put a horn in

pocket and got on a pony,dressed in trou and

shooting jacket ; his man on another pony in his

stable dress. He i s a real workman with hounds.

He trotted a long way along the rides in a huge

wood and never a hound left him . He then waved

his hand and they rushed into the wood and found

directly. N ext day I hunted with staghounds. I

rode a little chestnut mare of J ack Russel l’

s and

slept at the Rev . Wm . Luttrel l’s. Captain L. bought

the mare. I went to London and home next day.


REMIN ISCENCES OF

Friday,Quorn . Great Dalby. Elmhirst gave

me a mount on a capital horse . We ran fast and

wel l for about thirty minutes,and then hunted in

the Belvoir country among a host of foxes for many

hours. Had six miles back to Burdett’s cover and

a bad fox over a deep country ; got a good bucket

ing and lost him .

‘ Croppy ’ was out,Brocklehurst

,

Chandos-Pole,Duke of Portland

,and a big field

near 200. Yesterday,Cottesmore

,Beaumont Lodge

‘Congre ss

’

first horse ;‘Peppercorn

,

’

Baird ’s,second

,

a real good one.

‘Congress ’ i s a nailer,he is very

fi t,goes the pace

,and does not make much noise.

We came to a brook ; the fel lows al l went right and

left for better places,and most in and out. I went

straight at it and jumped it wel l . He did no t . quite

land his hind legs and dropped on his knees,but

never lost his balance,and recovered al l right. I

only rode him while hounds were running,as Baird

’

s

horse walked,which he would not.

“ Baird is a capital Master and the whole thing

wel l done and workmanl ike. He don’

t say much,

but he is very kind and thoughtful . I n the middle

of the day,as he trotted past me

,he said

,

‘You had

better send your other horse home,

’

so he got a

short day.

“T his is a nice place and very comfortable.

Hugh Lowther and Lady Grace dined here last

night and Dick T ryon and his wife the night before.

We have just come back from church in Oakham .

I t has become a l ittle M elton and is ful li

of hunting

men. T here are six degrees of frost this morning ;


it was raining when we came in last n ight. I hope

the frost is not coming back. I have a fine pro

gramme for the week if it comes off right.

Monday—Cottesmore , Greetham Inn,chestnut

T uesday—Cottesmore , T i l ton ,

‘Congress’

.

Wednesday— Belvoir,Croxton Park

,Westley

R ichard ’s horse.

“T hursday— Cunard ,

Bo tte ston,M r. Fernie

’

s

horse . (He was at St. Andrews in summer and out

cub-hunting a few times .)Friday— Pytchley

,Oxendon ,

chestnut mare.

Saturday— F itzwil l iam ,Lil ford

,

‘Congress ’

.

On T hursday I shal l go to J im Bailey ’s at

I lston after hunting,and Saturday to R. Arkw right

’

s

at Knuston . T here are moreover three bal ls

Leicester,Harborough and Holt—th is week.

“Your aff. father,

“

J . AN STRUTHER T HOMSON .

I got home on AshWednesday,2 nd March

,1 88 1 .

7 th.— A tremendous fal l of snow and tremendous

drifts. I tried to ride to kennels found men cutting

drifts six feet deep at N ewburn cross-roads. Sent

J immy Bel l back with my horse and walked on to

the strip near Gil ston . I walked over the tops of

trees and saw a man coming from West G il ston . I

met J ack Davis and told him I was going on to the

kennels. He said ,

“ I f you do you won ’ t get back

to-night ; it has taken me al l day to get here , so I

turned back with him.

REMINISCENCES OF

8th .-Started with three men on horses with

spades to ride to kennels ; we had to go across

fields. When we got to a fence we cleared away

the snow and jumped it.

Last day of the season,2 5th April . The worst

I ever experienced . F i fteen and a half brace of

foxes kil led twelve to ground .

On going into the Agricul tural Hal l ( 1 88 1 ) duringa horse show I saw the Rev . Mr. I nge riding a cob .

I stopped to speak to him and went into the com

m itte e room . A few minutes after he was supported

into the room by two pol icemen,having had a fit ;

he was laid on a sofa and had some tea and brandy,

but he could not speak plainly. Fortunately he had

kept his carriage wait ing and his servant. After a

time he recovered a l ittle and I went home with him

in the carriage to Cox ’s Hotel in J ermyn Street.

H is sister-in-law and her daughter were staying

there with him. I asked the servant who was Mr.

I nge ’s doctor. He said M r . H ayden and he l ived

in Chapel Street,Belgrave Square . I got into the

carriage and went the re,and fortunately hit the r ight

house,for I had no number. A young gen tleman

came to the door. I said,

“ Does Dr. H ayden l ive

here ”

. He said,

“ Dr. Eden did l ive here , but he

now l ives in P iccadil ly I went there and found

an elderly gentleman dressed for dinner. I said,

“ I bel ieve you used to attend the Rev . George

I nge ? ”H e said ,

“ Good God ! you don’ t mean to

say that Mr. I nge is sti l l al ive ; I have not seen him

I said,He is al ive , but won

’ t9

for seventeen years


REMIN ISCENCES OF

several Lord-Lieutenants Prince Christ ian , the

Ranger ofWindsor Forest,reserved a space for the

Four-in-Hand Club. I hired a team of black horses

from N ightingale at Streatham (they were capital good

ones,and Maccle sfie ld had driven them to Ascot

Races), and sent them on to Hounslow . Our party,

I think,was Edward Harman

,Fay,

Frances Atkinson ,

Harry E rskine,Kit and Rosie. T here were not many

coaches went down. I th ink Av e land and Fred

Vil l iers .

After the review coming home in the dark was

an awful j ob—the crowd on the road,the troops

,the

bands,the row . My horses pul led l ike demons

,my

fingers were sore and my arms ached . I drove al l

the way with my foot on the reins,but we got

through without any grief.

3o th J une — Mary Baird’s wedding. I asked her

who was going to marry her,and suggested J ack

Russel l . She desired me to ask him ,and he came

up to stay at Mrs. Baird ’s. N ext morning when he

came down to breakfast he said,

“When I left homeI desired Mary to put up my Sunday coat

,but she

has made a mistake,and put up my hunting one ”

(it was a long frock coat, made of rough cloth). He

looked at the sleeve,and said

,

“N ever mind ; it

’s a

black one

T he wedding was to take place at St . Peter’s. I

walked there with him and went into the vestry. A

curate pul led off the hunting coat and squeezed him

into a cassock,then put something round his neck

,

and something hanging down behind . He said,


Must I put on al l these things ?” “ Certainly

,said

the curate.

“ I f my people at Swimbridge saw me

with al l those things on they would cut out of the

church . Wel l,wel l

,when you are at Rom e

, you must

do as the Romans do.

”

After the wedding I walked down St. J ames ’s

Street,and saw the Prince of Wales returning in

state from a levee . He immediately recognised

Russel l,and sent an aide-de-camp to bring him into

the palace.

October. —Charleton . Having seen Knowles’

arrangements at Coul ston Bassett for drying stacks

with a farmer,I got a fanner from his man at T ithby

and arranged the pipes in the stackyard . Put up

thirty-five acres of barley and covered it with the

rick cloth. Unfortunately a tremendous storm of

wind and rain came on and blew down the poles

which supported the sheet. The stack was too big

and the whole concern heated . We took i t down

and threshed it . T he barley was rather d iscoloured,

but I th ink it was sold to the distil lery at Cameron .

All the bottom of the stack was the most beautiful

ensilage,but at that time we did not know what

ensilage was.

Season 1 88 1 .-A very late harvest . Bob Vincent

,

first whip ; Harry Shipway, second ; George Kemp ,

second horseman .

Ist day, 3rd October. -Pitscottie ; dry and l ittle

scent. Harry was riding Schreiber The horse

was looking beautiful . T rotting across a field,al l of

a sudden he gave a scream and fel l down dead :


Killed a fox in Cairngreen with a snare round his

leg. Hounds would not eat him. Ran another to

ground.

3 i st October.—Montrav e . Seven degrees frost ;bad scent ran hares and did nothing.

George Cheap e was Master of the West F ifeHounds and received the following characterist ic

letters from General B ruce :

“GLENDOUGLIE, 1 881 .

MY DEAR CHEAPE,

“ I particular ly want the puppy ‘Careless’

remitted to her private parade and under the watchful

eye of the huntsman. Like al l the breed,they are

wilful until their dril l i s over,when they are my heart ’s

del ight.“She ’s a cheery

'

wel l-grown pup,but wil l no t

come to cal l,and has taken to hunting hares and

whatever else she can find,though she finds her way

home cleverly enough .

Points of fingers very cold—glass marked eight

above zero,and has been lately in Perth below— and

much below zero. Bad for ‘huntsman,horse and

hounds fl

With best wishes,

Ever yours,

R. BRUCE.

Ladies send kind regards to Mrs. Cheap e ,and

hope she is wel l . E xcuse th is scraggy writing,but

my pen obeys disobedient fingers.”


REMIN ISCENCES OF

again,the hounds ran briskly to Craigsanquhar, and,

taking a l ine over the stiff wal ls in that quarter’

,bent

round by F ingask to the wood at the curl ing pond .

Hereabouts we must have started a second fox,

"

for

with a hot scent we ran a brace to Foodie,where

one went to ground . The huntsman d ismounted,

thinking the run was over,and a spade was sent for

,

when some of the hounds were seen running hard on

the west side .

‘On you go

,and kil l the other fox !

exclaimed our veteran Master ; and although by this

time most of the horses had already had enough of

it,on we went. T hose who could

,gal loped ; those

who could not,trotted after. From Foodie we ran

quite straight and without a check past Cairn ie

Lodge and P itbladdo,t il l within a mile of the

Mount,which evidently was Reynard ’ s point ; but,

being hard pressed,he turned sharp to the south

,and

was final ly run down in the middle of Cupar Muir

quarry,not far from Springfield . We found at 1

a.m .,and it was an old dog fox that we ki l led at

Cupar Muir at p m . For the last forty-five

minutes the hunt was very hot,and was w ithout a

check . Amongst those present at the meet we

observed Mr. Rigg,M r. Christie

,Mr. A. Gillespie

,

Mr. D . Carnegie,Mr. J . Carnegie

,M i ss M i l lar

,Mr.

T . Richmond,Mr. Walker

,and M i ss Wedderburn

,

Birkhill,on a pony.

2 7 th March , 1 882 .- I went up to York to stay

with J im Babington . T he l 6th Lancers were

quartered there. T hey had a regimental steeple

chase on the 2 9th. George Fox mounted me next


day with his hounds. He told Mr. B inns of Leeds

that I wanted to see Lord F itzwil l iam and his

hounds. Mr. B inns said,

“ I’

l l find a horse for you,

but there ain ’ t to be no cheques— i t ’s a compl iment ” .

N ext morning I went by train to Leeds,having

dined and slept at Mr. Wickham ’s,Chestnut Grove .

Got Mr. B inns ’ horse and trotted off to Richmond to

meet the b ounds. Kennet was hunting the hounds.

B inns’

horse got a Shoe off,so Kennet gave me his

second horse. T hey did not find ti l l very late,and

did nothing. Admiral Morton,Lord F i tzwil l iam

’

s

brother-in-law,was in command

,and was very kind

to me. He took me to see Lord Fitz w illiam,and I

dined there . I heard a good report of Kennet,so I

engaged him . Got into the night train and went home .

Monday, 3rd Apri l , 1 882 .

—Abernethy Station,

1 2 o ’clock.

“Squirrel

, J . A. T .

’“ Yarborough

,

”

George ; Brigstock,

”

Harry ; Paddy,

” Vincent.

Eighteen couple ; rather windy. Went straight toGlenfarg ; found directly. I was up wind of them

,

and they were top of Balmanno H i l l before I got out

of the cover. Me t Abelard “Gaylass

” and two

others,P irate and Sailor

,hunting a l ine back

towards Glenfarg ; tried to stop them ,but could not.

Went down the hil l and along the bottom and up

again at Glenearn . N ever got up to them,but kept

on the l ine to Ardargie ; got intel l igence there and

turned south,ran a ring and back through Glenearn

Wood,on to the round covers on the hil l . Here

“ Bob”

got a view and so did Abelard I never

got up to them til l here . T hey said the fox was in


the cover,but I could make nothing of it. Sophis

try,

” “ Carver,

and some others came back with

bloody faces. I looked everywhere on foot,but could

find nothing. A shepherd,Robertson

,told me that

he thought they had kil led h im near Ardargie ,for he

saw the hounds “ cluster Got my horse , broke Mr.

Wood ’s padlock to get on the hil l again with the help

of Ardargie keeper, T horburn ,and found the head

,

hind legs and brush . A capital run for hounds.

Got some tea at J ohn Richmond ’s ; rode“Squirrel

”

to Balb irnie ; got there eight o ’clock . Hounds

home

i 3th Apri l .—West Hounds at Damhead ; a

torrent of rain and gale of wind . Started by early

train ; met Wemyss at T hornton ; te legraphed to

send hounds home,and went to Wemyss Castle

lucky j ob . The shepherd put his ewes into C low

Wood ; ten of them died from eating wet black

berries. If we had been there the hounds would

have had the credit of it.

May 1 882 .—Bob Vincent came from Badminton

,

where he was first whip. He was a useless chap

and not honest. He got an iron bed on tick and

sold it to Harry Shepway and left al l h is bi l l s in

Cupar unpaid . Before Vincent left I was rid ing up

to the kennels . A lexander M i lne,my tenant at

N ewb igging,stopped me on the road

,and said

,

“ I

hear Vincent is going to leave . He’

s owing my

wife twa pund. I said,

“What for ? “ Butter

and eggs. He’

s bin eating eggs a’

winter at tip

pence the piece—a greedy dee v il.” I told him that



deck ; the others are very wel l . My mare was very

bad last night,but is al l right tod ay . We don

’

t

know where we are going to,but I th ink there is

l i ttle doubt w e ' are going to Ismalia.

”

He was sent to Cyprus with the remount horses,

and arrived in Egypt the day after the battle of T e l

e l-Kebir,so had al l the bother and none of the glory.

Bertie Balfour was wounded at T e l-e l-Kebir and died

of his wounds in London on the 2 4th of October.

Season 1 882 .— Commenced 1 6 th September

,

Kemback ; twenty-five and a half couple . Kennet ,kennel huntsman ; Harry Shipway

,second whip.

Found directly ; kil led one cub ; ran another to

ground on banks of Eden ; hot and dry ; d id no

more good .

1 8th—At Sandriggs. Found in’

J ohn Bel l ’s

potatoes ; ran very hard at t imes ; gal loped al l day,but could not catch one . Beat by potatoes

,there

being hundreds of acres,where you could not see a

hound , and not scent enough to force them out.

Monday,

2 5th.— Kilmany. A most disastrous

day ; found plenty of foxes in K ilmany ; no scent,and could not catch one. I n the afternoon went to

the big wood at St. Fort ; found directly ; ran a ring

in the wood ; checked and never got on it again .

When the hounds came out they rushed to a streamof water and lapped greedi ly. N ext morning they

were al l taken il l with severe vomiting , and many of

them with swel led legs.

On Wednesday met at Lundin Station . Kennet


sent on fifteen couple and remained at home with

the sick ones. F l ighty” was blowing so hard I

sent her home in the carriage. Found at Lundin ;ran a fox to ground at Sunnyb raes ; bolted it and

kil led it. “ Priestess ” was there at that t ime ; went

on to draw Largo Den and never saw her again.

On T hursday “ Hamlet died and several others ;had them examined

,but found no trace of p oison .

Puss,

” my terrier,was running with the hounds

and came home to Char leton with me. He was

taken il l. The other terrier was Shut up during the

day,and went home with the hounds to the kennel .

He was all right,which rather proves that the

mischief was done while out hunting.

One day I was drawing the moor at Wemyss andRandolph was about 100 yards from me ; presently I

he ar a voice shout “ Harry,Harry

,help

,help !

” I t

sounded a long distance off. I found that Randolph

and his horse had tumbled down an old coal-pit ; i t

had been covered with fir branches. Randolph was

cl inging to the Side of the pit ; the horse had dis

appeared . I jumped off,got hold of a branch

,put

my foot down he got hold of my ankle and cl imbed

up. We could not see the horse,but the stirrup

iron shined . T he pit was about thirty feet deep ;the branches had gone down under the horse

,so he

was not hurt. T hey got men and spades and began

to dig, but found that it was a buil t shaft. T hey

then let a miner down with a rope and at last suc

ceeded in pul l ing the horse up.

October 2 5th— Bay M iddleton was married in

VOL . 11. 1 3

KEM IN ISCEN ( LES U b'

n. After the wedding I went down to E xeter

pt there , and next morning went on to see J ack

Iat B lack T orrington . He was in his bed and

H is niece,M iss Riccard

,was there and Dr.

gton Ash attended him . I left next morning

ng to go home to attend Bertie Balfour’s funeral

,

missed the train at E xeter,so I went to see

and Mrs. T albot. He was employed there

horses for the art i l lery . Got back to London

ght.

.h.—Went down to Gatwick to Carnegy

’

s and

ed there Offand on t il l the o th N ovember.;t . - Edmund T attersal l gave me a mount with'

s Staghounds at Iverheath . Ro rode Yar

h

:h.—Ro and I went to Audley Wood to stay

le Pains.

rh .—The Vine Hounds at Heriot Park.

Deacon,master . I rode Pain ’s “ J umbo ”

.

zh . Sunday,Basingstoke Church .

.h .—Hargreaves Hounds, South Berks

,at

vo od Park. Rode “ Jumbo ” again . Dick

huntsman .

twick again,Reading and Knuston ; did not

to Charleton ti l l 2 ISt December. Colonel

{ton was acting-maste r in my absence.

33.—The puppy show took place at the Col insAgricultural Show on 1 sth April . George

ck and Captain Green T homson were two of

iges. Also Wi l l Dale,who is now huntsman

Duke of Beaufort,and had been with Ran


REMIN ISCENCES OF

A few days after I got a bil l to the fol lowing

effect °

T o I lamb ki l l ed.

T o 4 ewe s b ashed.

To 2 50 ewe s disturb ed, at I S . 6d. each .

Waldegrav e was very nice and kind about it.

I wrote to him saying I could not admit the last

item,as if I did I should have to pay eighteen-pence

for every ewe in F ife,and I just let them wait a

l itt le . I got a letter from him saying,

“My factor

wishes to have this account settled ; come over to

lunch some day I went over, had a capital lunch ,

and he walked down with me to the factor’ s house .

He then left me and said,

“ Go in and settle it in

any way you l ike ”

. I paid for the lamb and the

hashed ewes about seven pounds.

At the commencement of 1 883 my wife was very

i l l,and died at Charleton on the 1 2 th of February.

I n spring I went abroad with my two eldest

daughters . We went to Pau,where I heard of

the death of my dear old friend,J ack Russel l . We

went on to Madrid,Sevi l le

,Gibralter

,T angiers

,

T etuan ,Malaga and the Alhambra.

We returned home in J uly.


CHAP TER V I I I .

FIFE TO FOLKESTONE,AND PERTH TO LANGWELL BY

ROAD .

1 884. Monday,2 sth February—F i fe hounds at

T easse s T oll .

T uesday,2 6th — I went to breakfast with J im

T urnbul l,and crossed at Queensferry. Lothian

Hounds at Dundas Castle. Atkinson was on sick

l ist ; Russel l hunted the hounds. T urnbul l mounted

me ; got a howler over a rai l and spoiled my hat.

Ran into Hopetoun and kil led.

Wednesday,

2 7 th—Went from Edinburgh to

Doddington. Charl ie Gardyne had J arvis’ hounds

for the season while J arv is was abroad .

T hursday,2 8th .

—Burton Hounds. Shrub,master,

and hunted them himself ; has a good voice , but not

much use. Had a tired fox running down a fence

paral lel with him,but afraid to jump it

,so fox

escaped . Wi l l Goddard,whipper-in ; Gardyne

mounted me .

Friday,2 9 th — A bye-day with Gardyne he gave

me his whip ’s horse,and I whipped in to him . Had

a capital run found in a spinney close to Dodd ington,

and ran to Eagle Wood . A lot of the hounds were

short of work ,so the hunt ran in two lots- Gardyne


and the good ones on the l ine,and I had to bring on

the rear-guard . Went to a wrong holloa in Eagle

Wood and lost our fox. T om Brown,Gardyne

’

s

whip,coming out on a pony met our hunted fox

,but

we were too far off.

Saturday,

Ist March —Went to London , 1 I 3

Queen ’ s Gate , and stayed Sunday with Mrs. Hamilton

Gray. Went to Mr. Byng’

s church .

Monday—Down to Gatwick,to Pat Carnegy

’

s.

T uesday— E ssex U nion . After hunting went

to London,and on to Canterbury Barracks, B il l being

quartered there in I 3th Hussars.

Wednesday—Sussex Hounds. Sworder,master.

B il l got two hirel ings and borrowed a waggonette with

two ponies. We drove about twenty miles . I was

mounted on a big chestnut horse which had run away

and kil led his rider. F irst field I got into he ran

away with me ; lucki ly there was a boggy place at

the end of it , and I landed him in it up to his knees.

I then rode him into the covert and found he would

make no mistake at the grips. We d id not find for a

long time . B il l and I changed horses. I got a weedy

thoroughbred . We were going down a broad grass

ride with a rai l across it ; B il l jumped the rail , and I

saw him no more ti l l after d inner at barracks. We

went on close to Folkestone and found at Mr..Brock

man ’s ran towards the town and then turned up the

hil l s. T he horse cou ld gal lop wel l,but we were beat

for want of dayl ight,and I had an awful j ourney

home .

o th March.— \1Vent to London and bought a nice


REMIN ISCENCES OF

end of England to the other,and only saw one fox

kil led.

i 8th Apri l,

—Crossed to Belfast with PatCarnegy ; on by train to Dubl in. Pat stayed with

Captain Reid . I stayed in Royal Barracks with

Tyv ie Burn . I left Royal Barracks in 18 47 , and

they were just in the same state then as now,out of

repair and dirty. Colonel Malet was in command of

1 8th Hussars. We had two rooms ; I had one and

Burn and McCallan,his brother-in-law

,the other.

Randolph Wemyss went with us to the kennels atKel ls to see the Meath Hounds ; J ack Press , hunts

man .

Punchestown Races. —J im Babington on Soldier

B il l ” won the mil itary race. Cosmo Little got a

bad cropper.

2 3rd— Lunch at Viceregal Lodge. Walked in

the garden and had a long chat with Spencer.

2 4th—Crossed to Holyhead and slept at Crewe.

Home next day.

August 1 884.—T he Duke of Portland always

took four pairs of harness horses to Langwel l for

the shooting season . Chandy Pole suggested that

instead of sending them by train they should

drive them,and asked me to come with them . I

went,and met him in Perth at Salutation I nn . He

sent his brake harness and one man there by train .

Another came with the horses ’,a capital chap named

Richmond,and J oe T urner

,the Duke ’ s factor at

K ilmarnock,made al l the arrangements.

T he party was J ack Campbel l and his wife,


George Gore,B il l Bentinck , Chandy, T urner, and

myself. We sent one team on to B irnam and

stopped there to lunch,Changed horses , and on to

the inn at B lair-Athol,where we slept

,the other

team having gone on by rai l to Dalnasp idal. AS

we passed M iddlehaugh ,Amy Fergusson and her

sister gave us Athol brose.

N ext morning we changed horses,Dalnasp idal,

and on to N ewtonmore,where Mr. Wood had the

shooting,and he entertained us hospitably. We

passed Belvi l le,Charl ie Macpherson

’

s. Aviemore or

Boat of Garten,lunch .

We stayed at the Station Hotel , I nverness, and

were photographed next morning. Cal led at Evan

ton.

—Munro,the Raith keeper with one leg

,was

landlord at inn .

T ain.— I there left them and returned home by

train.

Char leton,I 3th.

—Started with Charl ie and Agnes

to drive toWemyss pottery. A tremendous thunder

storm. It became quite dark. A flash of l ightn ing

in front of the horses made them start and we turned

back. N ext day we started for the potteries again,

and Swindon ” got a shoe off,and I left the carriage

at the blacksmith’

s Shop. While in the pottery theboy ran in and said

,Please

,sir

,the horse is dead

and dead he was,so we had to go home by train.

2 1 5t. —I went to stay at Dysart.2 2 nd—Colonel Keates

,R.A.

,arrived next day.

A steam launch came to take him to Inchke ith for

inspection. We went with h im,Rosslyn and M i l li

202 REMINISCENCES OF

cent,Harry

,F i tzroy

,and Mr. Brougham

,their tutor.

After having inspected Inchk e ith we went on to

look at the Forth Bridge,then being made. I t was

pitch dark when we got to Dysart and low water.

The men on the pier shouted “ You can ’ t get in here ’

.

We then tried the rocks . Lady M . said,

“T hey

won ’t do,for I have bathed there Rosslyn said

,

“T ake me back to Edinburgh

,and I wil l sleep at

the N ew Club ”

. I said,I must get home to-n igh' t

and I ’ l l jump overboard Harry suggested,

“ Get

a pilot boat,and in a moment a boat came round

the corner and landed us two at a time. We

scrambled over the rocks up to the house,and had

some supper. I got my pony and gal loped home.

2 5th—R0 and I started by night train to Annes

ley. Lord Harrington ’s hounds met there. Mr.

Sherbrooke sent two horses on for me,and Mrs.

Musters lent Ro her horse. We arrived at 7 am .

2 7 th—West Hal lam. Harrington mounted both

me and Ro . We went home on the night of the

2 9 th,dressed in the Pul lman

,and went straight to the

meet at Ladybank.

N ewcastle Fair on 2 7 th.—I went up in the night

,

met J ohnny Brady who had about fourteen horses.

Sam Hames was there. Brady had two good

chestnut horses. He wanted 1; 2 50 for each of

them. I could not leave Fairyring,so bought

him and another for 300 guineas. “T opsai l

,the

other one,was restive and not much good .

7 th September,

1 884.— I went to Charl ie

Wright ’ s at K irby for Doncaster Races. He had


REMINISCENCES OF

1 oth Septembe r. —Conservative meeting in the

Corn E xchange,Edinburgh . After the meeting I

went home with B il l B lackwood to Gogar. N ext

morning the hounds met at Hopetoun . B il l B lack

wood mounted me,and Hopetoun mounted the

others. T hey ki l led a cub,and Waterford said

that he had never been blooded. I said,

“We

wil l do it now,

” but he careful ly kept out of my

way. Harry Chapl in came out later,his trousers

wrinkled up to his knees,and he lo oked very un

comfortable. He told me that if I had not spoken

to him at Doncaster he would not have come .

I st June , 1 885.-I star ted with K it and Rosie

to go to Wiesbaden. We Slept the first night at

Brussels,next at Cologne

,and the third arrived at

W iesbaden . We found Mrs. Carnegy of Lour, Mrs.

Craigie Halkett and her daughters there. We put

up at the White Rose . General Conol ly was there.

I had known him many years,and remember him

riding a steeplechase at Leamington . He was very

unwel l,and died very suddenly in the hotel . . The

pol ice came and took possession of al l his things ,

H is servant was a Corfu man,and he gave me the

address of General Gray at Bath . I wrote to him

and he came out at once. He was rather a’

he lp le ss

chap in a Strange country,so I had to go about with

him . We went to the burial-ground with a commis

sionnaire,who said

,Wir wol len ein Grab kaufen

,

”

and we chose a corner place. We then went in

search of a clergyman. H is name was Matz uke lli.

After talking to him ,he said

,

“Was your brother at


REMIN ISCENCES OF

I went to d ine with ’ Charl ie Macpherson at

Belvil le . N ext day we went to lunch at Moy, The

MacIntOSh’

s (his lady had a babe the same night),and then on to Cawdor Castle . N ext day

,I nverness

slept at Station Hotel . Lunch at Dingwal l,where

Ronald Ferguson was canvassing. We were photo

graphed there. Slept at T ain,and next day to

Golspie. Here al l the others went on by train to

Langwell , leaving Chandy and me to bring on thecoach .

The only people in the hotel were Kennedy,the

Scottish songster,and his daughters. I gave him

the words Of the Sl ippy Stane,as he had never

heard it and was keen to get Scotch songs ; but he

did not l ive to Sing it. We met Lady Rosslyn and

Dr. Duncan coming out of church . The Duchess

of Sutherland had a baby the night before. We

dined at Dunrobin. The Duke and Chandy had

been at E ton together,and I was al lowed to see the

baby.

Captain Reid was adjutant of the volunteers, and

he had a pack of beagles. N ext morning we ran a

drag round the house at Dunrobin.

9 th August. ~ - It was my birthday ; s ixty-seven

years old . When we arrived at Langwel l we foundal l the party coming up from the river

,having caught

some good fish .

On the 1 1 th we walked over to Braemar. Chandy

and one other remained to shoot there. I had shot

there with Ralph Anstruther in 1 837 .

On the 1 2 th the Duke and George Gore shot


together and Cape]and Doggie Smith . As I could

not shoot,Lady Margaret Gore said that She would

show me how to catch a salmon,but she got never a

bite ; so we hunted rabbits with a terrier dog ,and

her hound language was excel lent.

T he Duke sent me and B il l Bentinck to the deer

forest one day,and if we found a stag with the velvet

offhis horns we might shoot him . We saw hundreds

of deer but never a fi t one. I t was very interesting

lying on the heather watching them . Old Duncan,

the head forester,had been with old Lord K intore

when he had the hounds at T urriff. I left on 1 5th ,

and returned home.

REMINISCENCES OF

CHAP TER IX .

FIRST SCOTT ISH TOURNAMENT .

T88O.—I had been trying for a long time to

devise some means of improving the horsemanship of

the regiment and when at the I sl ington T ournament

that spring it occurred to me to try and form a

musical ride. On meeting Maj or Tul ly (secretaryof the I sl ington T ournament) I told him my inten

tion. T o this he repl ied,

I t ’s perfectly impossible ;you wil l never get any troops together for a sufficient

amount of practice I said,

“ You wil l see ”

. I then

appl ied to my son,who was in the B lues at Knights

bridge, for assistance . Mr. Godfrey,bandmaster

,

lent me the music ; Mr. Weir, riding-master, sent aprogramme of a simple ride

,and gave me much

valuable advice. He recommended me to form two

rides, one cantering and one trotting,as some canter

more easily than others,and it is less for the man to

remember. That year the 2 nd Life Guards per

formed the ride at the tournament. I watched the

movements and made notes. Mr. Burt,riding ~

master of the 2 nd, kindly al lowed me to be present

at a ride in the riding-school at Regent ’s Park bar

racks, and explained it careful ly to me . The ride of

the 2 nd Life Guards was led by Corporal Goodal l


REMIN ISCENCES OF

second and third rides. The first ride was only

one point better than the Second . At the conclusion

of the ride Maj or T ul ly came across the hal l and

said,

“I retract al l I said to you at I sl ington ; it is

perfectly marvel lous what you have succeeded in

doing,and I sincerely congratulate you We took

at the doors,and after paying al l expenses

gave the balance to mil itary charit ies.

1 886 .—~ I went over to Balcask ie to see Robert

Anstruther,who was not wel l . He was in the

drawing-room reading the newspaper. He said,

When I shut one eye I can ’ t see at al l I took

up the paper shut my left eye,and said

,By Jove

,

I can’

t either I t was the first time I found out

that I was bl ind . For some time I had wiped the

right eye of my spectacles th inking that the glass was

in fault.

I was staying with Mrs. Musters,in June

,and

She advised me to go and consult Mr. Bel l T aylor

at N ottingham,as he was very famous as an ocul ist.

I found his rooms,passages and staircas e crowded

with people . When I got into his room he said,

“Wel l,sir

,what is the matter with you ? ” I ‘ said

,

I have a cataract in my right eye ”

.

noth ing worse.

’

He then looked through a glass

(his own eye looked as if he could see through you)and said

,

“ Yes,that eye is fi t to operate on ; I ’ l l do

it now if you l ike ”

. I said,

Don ’t you be in a

Lucky it is

hurry. How long do you want to keep me here ?

About a fortnight or three weeks I said I had

to go to Perth for ten days’ drill . He said

,Come


when the dril l is over,and I departed . When I

got home I could see quite wel l with one eye,so I

thought I would not go to h im at present. I wrote

to h im saying so. He repl ied,

I advise you to

come,for your other eye wil l become worse

,and it

is advisable to have one good one”

.

I n August,I said to Rosie

,Pack up your port

manteau and come to N ottingham with me I

wired to say I was coming. We arrived there at

P .M . and rang the bel l at h is house . He came

out himself and said,

“I have got a comfortable

lodging for you close by. Will you have it done

to-n /z t ? I said,

“I have come here on purpose

,

and wil l do anything you l ike,but we have had no

dinner ”.

We went to the lodging : got some tea and a

mutton chop. How I did curse that mutton chop

afterwards ! While at tea he put some cocaine into myeye with a paint brush . I then went upstairs found

a lamp with a great bowl of water in front of it ; lay

down on the sofa,hav ing taken my coat Off

,and

expected to have my head cut Off. He put a thing

l ike a tailor’s thimble to keep my eyel id back and

fumbled about my eye without causing any pain . I

clenched my teeth . He said,

“ You need not do

that I have half done I only want to smooth down

this edge”

He then said to M iss Sul ley,the nurse ,

“T el l M iss T homson to come and see ”

R0 was

al l the time in the next room and very anxious. She

came and looked,and said

,

“I can ’t see any differ

ence”

. I was then put to bed,a bit of cotton wo o l

14

2 1 2 REMINISCENCES OF

with boracic acid over my eye and a tape round

each wrist so that I could not touch it in my sleep.

I was kept in a dark room about a fortnight and

then got out with a brown paper Shade over my

eyes

Bel l T aylor was a most amusing and eccentric

man . He l ived about four miles out of the town .

I n the morning he breakfasted on porridge and

treacle,walked about his garden composing medical

lectures or pol it ical papers. (He was a keen Con

servativ e .) He then mounted a tricycle and rode

into N ottingham . He had about thirty tricycles and

bicycles in his coach houses. He had a smal l wooden

house at the top of the hil l where he left his bike,

got into a cab and went to his hospi tals— I th ink he

had two or three houses with patients— and then to

his rooms,which were ful l . He had lunch at three

o ’clock in the kitchen,which was very pretti ly got up

with coloured glass and t iles,and had two nice white

horses in loose-boxes close by,with looking-glas ses

so that they could see themselves. H e used to come

and sit w ith me about ten o’clock. I said,

“.Have

you had a busy day ? I have seen a hundred and

ten fel lows and operated ten times .”

At eleven

O’clock he mounted his bike and rode home to his

country house .

I got home . Began hunting with a patch over

my eye and never missed a day.

End of the season 1 886 and 1 887 .

— Captain

Cheap e having given up the West country and

having become Master of the Linl ithgow and Stirl ing



6 th May,1 887 .

— J ohn Gilmour wrote '“ I t is

quite impossible to communicate with al l the sub

scribers in t ime to enable you to make the necessary

arrangements. I f you wil l accept of my personal

guarantee I wil l undertake be forthcoming

for next season. Guarantees for the possible deficit

of £ 1 50 to be named afterwards .

I then commenced to make arrangements to hunt

the West country . I rented a cottage and a smal l

farmyard at Cowdenbeath for 20. David Wi lkie,

the tenant,was a capital

,respectable old man

,and I

kept him on as orra man. H is wife was very tidy

and cooked,and their daughter was very nice and

useful in the house. J ack Capel,my second whip

(brother to Ben Capel the Belvoir hunstman),married her. George Palmer was kennel huntsman .

We al l l ived in the same house. I had one

room . T here had been a “ creep ” of the col l iery

under the house and al l the doors were off the

square. At 6 am . the siren used to sound to rouse

the workmen . David used to bring me a tumbler of

milk and a sl ice of bread,and after feeding the horses

we al l went to work as masons and carpenters . We'

made a partit ion across the barn one side a lodging

house,and the other side a feeding room with a

portable boiler in it ; and we made a courtyard with

upright larch poles.

I usual ly stayed there two days , and when the

men left off work at five o’

clock got on a horse and

rode home—twenty-five miles. We got the place

into something l ike order during the summer.

COL . ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 2 15‘

T he season commenced on 3 l st August—theearl iest I remember. Hounds al l commenced cub

hunting from Harleswynd kennel . West pack wentto Cowdenbeath on 6 th October after hunting at

B lair Adam.

1 8th September.~ —Ran a fox to ground on the

hi l l behind P itlour. When I took the hounds away

Jack Shepherd heard something moaning,went back ,

and found “Old Mariner

” very much injured . He

had gone to ground after the fox,and the hounds

had bit h im al l over his h ind legs and flanks. He

was so bad we were obl iged to kil l him .

Ist December,

1 87 7 .— Me t at Path of Condie .

Horses,Plum T om -Cat

,J ack ;

“ J ubilee, George ;“A lec

, J . Capel . Seventeen

couple. F ine morning , but windy. Drove Donald

son to Ladybank and on by train to B ridge of Earn.

Found at I nvermay ; ran hard through S i l ly

Whinny ” to C low. T here hounds ran clean away

from us. After gaping about for half an hour we got

word that a pol iceman saw them cross the road near

Greenhil l going towards Craig Rossie,about six

miles Off. J ohn Richmond and I and Capel set off

across the hil l on a sheep track. Luckily we hit on

a hand-gate on the march fence,as it is al l wired

,and

on getting to top of hil l we saw noth ing but Sheep

and carrion crows. After blowing and hol loaing for

some time a single hound came to me covered with

blood. I said to mysel f,I t ’s al l right ; they have

ki l led him .

”

Another came with his chest al l

covered with blood . I saw that there was more


blood than would belong to a fox,and said

,Surely

they have kil led a sheep I jumped off and smelt

the blood and it was not fox. After blowing for

some time,thirteen couple came to me

,al l from the

bottom of the hil l . J ack Capel said to me,

“ I see

something at the bottom of the hil l in a d itch ; i t

looks l ike a dead fox . After”

pointing it out to me,

I said,I t ’s not a fox

,and we started to scramble

down the hi l l . I t was very steep and we had great

d ifficulty in getting down . We found “ Matron ”

dead,lying on her back

,and her bel ly and legs

looked as if they had been riddled with Shot. She

had been worried by the other hounds and the holes

were caused by the hounds ’ tushes. She was quite

st iff,and the hounds just put their noses under her

and turned the body over. Probably the fox had

got to ground about top of h il l and “ Matron ” had

gone in after him,and they had al l rol led down the

h il l together fighting . For some days afterwards the

hounds were very unsettled and quarrelsome.

I sent hounds home to Cowdenbeath with George

Palmer and Capel . I went and dined at Dron with

J . Richmond . Gordon drove me into Perth to catch

the night train . I slept at Edinburgh,and went on

to London next day.

3 l st December, 1 887 .—From the F i fe paper

T he F ife Hounds met at Largo on 14th Decem

ber,and found in P itmuir H i l l. T he fox started through

Kie lsden and Balcormo Wood,and through a flock

of sheep,and on to Bonnyton Wood ,

crossed the

road south of T easses T ol l,the hounds rattl ing him


2 18 REMINISCENCES OF

A fo xhound , Singer by name,was sent «from

the F i fe kennels to Captain Cheap e'

s kennels .at

Gol fbal l. He got loose at Gogar station,being

insecurely tied up,and was found dead on the l ine .

He was the very best,both in work and appear

ance ; always first,either in chase or on the road

,

with the best nose and finest temper. He was four

years old,by F itzwil l iam “

Shamrock out of

Styl ish

SINGER.

(Killed yanuary ,

P oo r Singer”has ta

’

en h is last j ourney on earth,

No m ore shall “ the Kingdom b eho ld himAh l wae was the day that he cro ssed o

’er the Firth ,

And l eft b onnie Fife in the gloamin ’

.

The pride of the kenne l , Fitzwil l iam h is race,

Th e b rave son of“ Shamro ck ” and Styl ish ”

;

No hound in the pack could come near h im for pace,

N o r touch h im from find to the finish .

T ied up in the stat ion’

twas wre tched to b e ,With chain , leather co l lar and muzz l e ;

They thought they had fixed h im ,but Singer, you se e ,

Ere lo ng had discove red the puzz le .

Away down the p latform ,swift o ver the ground,

Right gladly he now puts the pace on,

With on ly one thought in his head, I’ll be b ound

,

“ I am out ofthat cussed o ld station

Righ t into the darkne ss, straight onward he fl ew ,

Q uite he edle ss ofaught that m ight fo l low,But no friendly vo ice that he trusted or knewSang out now ,

“ ’Ware engine , o ld fe l low ! ”

With thund’

ring roar,rushing on through the night ,

Th e red fires ofthe great engine sh ine ;

Heu baick , the re now, ah ! Singe r,

’

h eu baick !

Alas ! Singer”is st il l “ on the l ine


On the l ine , ay, but not on o ne that h e knew ,

T hat h e’d puzz led out many a time ;

With a snort and a hiss straight on the train fl ew

And poo r “Singer” l ie s dead on the l ine I

No m o re o’er Fife pastures h is tongue w il l h e throw ,

Or re spond to the sound of the ho rn

Th e Master is so rrowing sad ly I knowFor the best hound that e ver was b o rn.

What, won’t it do , Singer

’ ? Now isn’

t that right

H eu baiek into co ve rt,h eu then

,

”

And so on bursts the music,so che ery and brigh t,

With a“Tal ly-ho , for-ard again .

With never a check , wh ile Singe r is l eadingFo r the good hound is ne ve r “

at fau lt ”

;

He’d carry the scent through she e pfo ld and sh e i l ing,And ne

’er pause , th ough the o thers may halt .

First in at the death ! “Who o-o p H e ro l ls the fox o’

er

Ah ! ’t is hard to b e l ie ve h e is dead ;

And sadly we ’ l l hunt o ’

e r p lough , pasture and m o or

Where our“ Singer

”so often has led.

i

In Elysian fie lds fair, tho se far hunt ing grounds ,’Midst c l ear rive rs

, gre en val leys and rocks,

Who knows that there may no t b e horse s and hounds,

And perhap s just the gho st ofa fox ?

“VVo o -oo -o o -o o-o o-o p ! N ow o ld man !”

We l l,this one th ing fo r ce rtain I know ,

That Singer”is leading the first of the van

Ifthey sound there the glad “ Tal ly-ho

I was elected a member of the Caledonian Hunt

in December,1 845, while quartered in I reland

,and

was next in succession to Sir Hugh Hume Campbel l .

I n 1 888 I sent in my resignation,having been a

member for forty-three years. I received a letter

from SirT homas E rskine

REM INISCENCES OF

CAMBO, CRAIL , SCOTLAND ,

“january , 1 888.

My DEAR JACK,

“On T uesday evening your absence from

the hunt was universal ly regretted who started it I

cannot say,but al l present took up the cry (l ike

hounds taking up a l ine on the way to cover). Wel l ,they said to me

,

‘Wi l l you ask him to become an

honorary member ? ’ I said,

‘ I t would hardly come

wel l from me. As you al l know,he is one of my

dearest friends ; should such a proposition not come

from the Club ? ’

T hen they said to Stair,

‘Wi l lyou write and ask him ? ’

He thought it over and

said,I t is no use paying an empty compl iment it is

a del icate question ’

. T hen he said to me,

‘ I f you

wil l undertake to find out J ack ’s wishes nothing wil l

give me greater pleasure than to carry out the wishes

of the club ’

. We had a large meeting —eighteen,I

th ink— and the motion of getting you back was

unanimous . T he question of precedents was gone

into ; that is al l right. So now I have done what

was put upon me to the best of my abil ity,and

whether you accept or not,I am glad to have had

the chance of letting you know the opinion of a very

representative meeting of the hunt. Of course if

you accept I Shal l be much more glad .

“ I am,

Very affectionately yours,

“T HOS. ERSK INE.

Present at the dinner : Lord Stair, J ohn Hamilton

of Dalzel l,Dick Oswald of Auchencruive , Sir G :


REM IN ISCENCES OF

subject formal ly before the next meeting ’

,y, 1 1 th March .

refore request Your attendance on that day

ar before seven o’clock at the N ew Club

,

I I f you are not to be present,wil l you

o odne ss to let me know your v iews on the‘h as l ittle delay as possible.

have the honour to be,

Your obedient servant,

“

J . AN STRUTHER T HOMSON ,

P reses.

members with one or two exceptions,

favour of this. All the subscript ions were

paid,except one. I had the pleasure of

iille sp ie a cheque for He was

ful,and said it came most opportunely

,as

him to meet the payment of his insurance

He became bl ind,but st i l l remained j oint

with his so n,who was very popular

,but

young. Sir J ohn died in 1 90 1 .

ebruary,1 888.

—Mygrandson ,J ohn Arnold

was born. On Monday,

2 2 nd March,

bal l at Charleton in his honour,which was

ssful. Danced in the dining-room supper

wing-room al l the doors were opened,so

free egress everywhere. Supper came up

in the .

“Far West

,

” and the bath was

nd champagne bottles. We got J amieson‘

0m St. Andrews to take charge of the

pert Leigh ,Le T err ier

,1 5th Hussars

,


P itman and Dr. Caverhill stayed here for it. Hunt

servants— J ack Shepherd,Wi l l Goodal l and J ack

Capel] in red coats,knee -breeches and white stock

ings- attended at the door to receive the company.

George Chalmer and his wife drove al l the way from

Inchdairnie for it. Wal lace,bandsman F .L .H

played the piano,and his two sisters viol ins.

2 6th April— My last hunt as M .F .H . Me t at

Dunearn,twelve o

’

clock. I came over from Edin

burgh. J ohnny Goodal l gave me a mount on

E ssex,as al l my horses were preparing to be sold.

Rosie was out,but I forget where she came from.

Found direct ly ,cl ipping scent

,and ran wel l to Raith

,

about seven miles. Unfortunately there was a roup

of wood going on,which headed the fox ; and the

people kept moving on over the ground I wished

to try,so I could make no more of it. Went back

to Dunearn. T he keeper told me he had seen a fox

go into a patch of gorse about two miles off ; found

there directly . Got away close at the fox,and ran

into him in the open at the side of the road near

Balmul lo. Rosie and I went back to Cowdenbeath

with the b ounds. Had tea,and got into the train

and arrived at T hornton at seven o ’clock,where we

had to wait two hours. I laid down and fel l asleep.

At Mr. Orchardson said,T his is your train

”

.

J ust as I was going out he said he had appl ied for a

l icence for another refreshment-room,and hoped I

would support him . T he engine gave one snort.

I said to Rosie,

“Run for your l ife ”

. She flew to

the end of the platform,but the train was off and al l

REMIN ISCENCES OF

the l ights out except in the station-master’

s office. I

said to him,You must give us an engine and run

us down,special

,to K ilconquhar ”

. He said,

“ I

have not got one. T here is a goods train going to

Markinch you can go by it,and sleep at Balb irnie .

”

T hat would not do. Mr. Orchardson had a pony

and trap,but the minister had got it out to do some

duty at Dysart,and had remained to dinner. I t was

past eleven when the pony returned . I t then had

to be fed. At last we made a start and got home

about two in the morning. Mr. Orchardson sent for

his pony next day. So ended my last day,and one

of the longest I ever experienced .

2 6th May.—T he second tournament in the

Waverley Market,Edinburgh . General Annesley

preferred that it Should be cal led an assault-at

arms T he 1 5th Hussars were quartered at

P ie rshill,Colonel White in command. Quarter

master Swan presented the Swan T rophy to be

competed for by four members of any auxil iarycavalry in Scotland—heads and posts

,tent-pegging

,

lemon-cutting and j umping. Only three squads com

p e ted. Resul t : F i fe,1 47 ; Lothian and Berwick

,

1 42 ; Forfar, 1 1 1 . Sergeant-major T hom,Sergeant

M i l lar,Sergeant B lyth and Corporal Webster were

the F ife team. I n the three competitions—heads

and posts,tent-pegging and lemon-cutting— F i fe was

twenty-two points better than Lothians,and thirty ,

eight points ahead of Forfar . I n the jumping

competition Sergeant M i l lar’s horse tumbled over

the bar,which reduced F ife ’s majority by seventeen


REMIN ISCENCES OF

burgh for D r. Caverhill and Dr. Muirhead. On

Sunday' night I met them when t hey came .out of the

Sick-room thed no t speak to me , but Shook their

heads. I went to bed,and expected that »it would be

al l over b efore the morn ing. Caverhill -had to leave

by the first train on Monday. I got up to see him .

He came out of the sick-room and said,T hese bad

symptoms have abated and from that moment ithe

ch ild began to improve,and eventual ly got quite wel l .

My youngest boy ,Arthur

,wrote the fol lowing

letter to h is sister

“STORRtNGTON , Susse x ,z 8th February ,

-89 .

MY DEAREST RO,

“ Many,many happy returns of your buff

day . I hope this letter wil l arrive on March Ist,as

it is meant to. I got a letter from Kit yesterday.

She says that she is going up to Charleton on

Sunday night to keep the peace be tween Johnald’

s

two nurses while Pup and O l ive go for their tour. I

never expected it to come off so soon (at least to meit seems soon), i f at al l

“S ince my letter needs padding

,as it certainly

does,I wi l l fi l l it up with a ‘

jingle’

which suggested

itsel f to me (i propos Of Kit’

s keeping the peace

between the nurses. You must read it so as to

make it scan,or else it wil l lose al l its charm.

Once upon a time,

In e igh ty-nine ,

T he re l ived a boy cal led John ,

Who had tw o nurses,

Who with curses

Fought at Charleton.


The one cal led AnnaWith her mannerRi led poor P arke r much,Whi le the brow of P arkerSoon grew darke rAs the other gabb led Dutch .

The one w as tal ler,The oth er was smal le r,But sti l l the strife waxed hot ;The crisis came

,

But all the same

N e ither yie lded a jo t.

The one did sco ld,So the o ther to ldThe m aster of that p lace ,And with many a taleD id her foe assai lIn the stating ofher case .

One p layed doub le ,And a high o ld muddleTherefrom did ensue ;

And many a tear

In h er eye did ap pearWhen of th is h er maste r knew.

The o the r did longHe r assailant to wrongWhene ve r a chance shou ld com e ;

So one gave war’

ning

T hat very morning,

Which se emed to us rather rum .

But all the same

They we re bo th quite tame

When parted from each other,

So they sett l ed to stay

T o the end ofMay,

Til l the advent ofh is moth e r .

But for tho se twe lve we eksThere are sure to b e p iques,And bo th are sure to loo k glumBut we ’ l l ke e p ’

em toge the r

With the h e l p ofa feathe rAnd Judson

'

s st ickfast gum.

15

REM INISCENCES OF

Now from this you’ l l se e

That it’s foo l ish to be

Without great Judson’

s gum

Ifyou put it to use

It’ l l save much abuse

T o riddl e de gum-tum-tum .

(Ado ertz’

semeuI.)

(T hese last four pages are consequently the

advertisement sheets.) You ’ve no idea how beauti

ful ly I made it read,but I ’m afraid you wil l have

great difficulty in so doing.

”

1 888.-I gave up the F ife Hounds on Ist May

and was succeeded by Captain M iddleton. He had

hunted a pack of barriers for ten years. At the

meeting I said that if I went on I did not want any

more hounds. T he meeting was anxious to give

h im a good start . A committee was named to

arrange about getting some more hounds,consisting

of myself and two others . George Cheap e had

twenty couple of dog bounds for sale , one and

two-year-old hunters,not half broken

,and had not

been out hunting Since Christmas. My co -com

m ittee men bought them without seeing them and

without consulting me,and M iddleton drafted six

teen couple of my old hounds w/z z’

o/z could launt to

make room for them . When they began . cub

hunting these unbroken hounds would hunt rabbits

and speak to anything. The old hounds on going to

the cry and finding it wrong very soon would not go

to a cry at al l,and there was no body of old hounds

to carry on,and very soon they would not hunt

anything. The cry every day was “ no scent,

” but it



Hoping to see you here to-morrow,and that we

shal l have some sport on Saturday,

I remain,

Yours sincerely,

“

J . A. M IDDLETON .

I gave him my whistle,but he did not use it

,so I

asked him ' to send it back. I had it gilt and attached

to a gold chain,and gave it to my daughter Rosie fo r

a wedding present. I have seen him sit and blow his

horn to get hounds away,and they would jump on

the top of the wal l and jump back again into the

covert when I knew that one sound of my whistle

would have brought them al l flying out.

He had a very bad il lness and had to give up

riding for some time,and after that was real ly not fi t

to hunt a pack of hounds. H is death was very sad

and sudden . He was very popular and l iberal,and

did a great deal for the benefit and amusement of his

neighbours. He instituted the point-to-point ” races

and took much interest in the Cupar Cricket Club.

I n former days he was a first-class cricketer and lawn

tennis player.

October,1 888—From the F ifejournal .

“ Colonel J . Anstruther T homson,who retired a

few months ago from the mas tership of the F ife Fox

hounds,was presented at Cupar on T uesday week

with Fairy Ring,

’ a favourite horse of the Colonel ’s,

and with a handsome Si lver casket bearing the names

of 1 70 subscribers and containing a cheque for 560

guineas.

COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 2 3 1

Colonel Balfour of Balb irnie made the presen

tation. After referring to the p leasure it afforded

them to see that the proceedings were graced by the

presence of ladies,who were hearti ly welcome

,he

said they were al l aware that some months ago his

friend on the left (Colonel Anstruther T homson),who had been the moving and managing spirit of

their establ ished county pack so long,had determined

to reti re from the management. T here was at that

a universal feel ing of regret,accompan ied by a spon

taneous desire on the part of his friends that some

smal l token of their admiration of him and the esteem

in which they held him as a county gentleman would

be appropriate,and that their

’

appreciation of his

abil it ies as a Master of Foxhounds Should be recog

nised. As they were al l wel l aware,his able master

ship of the foxhounds had been wel l noticed in the

midland counties and in the Pytchley Hunt,and they

did not need to go further than that. But they were

proud of him as being a county man . He had always

been foremost in al l that related to the interests of

the county,civ i l

,agricul tural or mi l itary. I n short

,

in all their social arrangements,and in everything

that pertained to county business,they had always

had his advice,his opin ion and his presence

,and he

was sure they were al l glad to have him among them

on that occasion. Fo r himself,he was proud to have

been authorised by those of h is friends whose names

were engraved upon the casket before him to present

the same to Colonel Anstruther T homson,along

with his favourite horse ‘Fairy Ring ’ and 560


guineas,as a smal l token of thei r esteem ad

m iration for him. I t was their earnest hope that

he would continue in good health,and not on ly

himself but al l at Charleton. I t was a great pleasure

to them al l to see him so wel l . No doubt he had

thought it right that the hard work of the mastership

of the hounds should devolve upon somebody else.

”



Wi l l J ones. N o t a very large field ; Major and

Mrs. Amcotts. “Fairy ” trod on a hound

going through the first gate. Gil lard was very good

about it. We found at once two foxes,whip

pursuing one wild ly trying to guide it towards the

vale instead of the hil l where it intended to go.

However,it went its own way

,and we had to go

to the hi l l woods,where there was a good deal of

snow. T hey bumbled about for some time and at

last j ogged to a wood,and did not find

,and as it

was hail ing in our faces we decided to go home to

Wiverton. He went up to London that night,and

on arriving at barracks found B il l was being “ feasted

by his brother officers,previous to his departure to

Austral ia,being appointed az

'

a’e-a

’o-eomp to Lord K in

tore.

Sunday, 3rd March —He lunched with Lord

K intore and dined with.Bi l l.

Monday , 4th March—Father arrived by an earl ier

train and walked up from B ingham. T he trap was

sent for his things,and just before d inner Mark

,the

butler,rushed in saying

,Please

,Sir

,I am very sorry,

but you can’

t dress for dinner as only the shafts have

returned ”

. I t seems that a cart had run into. the

Musters’ trap and it had broken in two,the carriage

part going into a ditch,the horse quietly j ogging hom e

with the reins and Shafts. After some time the men

appeared explaining matters.

T uesday, sth March—Hard frost ; had thought

of hunting with the Quorn,but too hard

,so we put

“The Swel l ” into. the Musters

’ dog-cart and drove off


to Melton,over ten miles. T here we put up The

Swel l ” and got a very nice fast hirel ing (roarer)and drove on to Barleythorpe

,ten or eleven miles.

We arrived at about three and found Rosie and

Mrs. Baird j ust going out. T hey gave us food,as

we were starving,and we then walked to Oakham

,

where we met Mr. Baird, Mr. Marshal l

,etc.

,and

returned to Barleythorpe. We then had tea and

drove home to Wiverton again.

Wednesday (Ash), 6th March — Father and I

drove to B ingham in the M .

’

s brougham and pair,

and then trained to N ottingham and proceeded to

walk to Dr. Bel l T aylor, 9 Park Row . T here

was a high wind and a good deal of dust which got

into our eyes. Dr. Bel l T aylor was of course en

gaged,so we had to wait ages. At last he was

ready,so father and I descended to his consul ting

room. He put bel ladonna into father’s right eye

and then proceeded to talk “Shop

,

” and I began to

feel sick and tried -not to l isten . I seized hold of

Whyte-Melv i l le ’ s R iding Recollections and said I

would wait upstairs unti l we were released , which I

then did,and got deep in my book. He presented

father with a book he had written on the diseases

of the eye and me with R iding Recollections.

T hursday, 7 th March—Meet at Croxton Park .

Nasty wet morning. Father came into my room

and said; Do you sti l l mean to go,011?

“ Yes,

”

I answered,

“ but I wil l take Peter (our groom) andnot Mary.

”

At breakfast they al l chaffed me awful ly ,

and would not bel ieve I real ly meant to face the

236 REMINISCENCES or

elements. I was,however

,determined to go

,but

begged Mary to stay at home,but she insisted on

go ing too (much against her wil l and mine). She

would not bel ieve I could drive,and I am sure never

expected to reach home in safety. So we started

about eleven to drive to Croxton Park,about twelve

miles. I drove “The Swel l ” in their cart.

‘

We got

there in a bl inding and bitter snowstorm and saw

nothing. We careered wildly about and were,told

the hounds had just trotted off ten minutes ago ; we

also saw two or three late Me ltonite s, which cheered

us immensely,so we drove along gaily expecting to

find them quite soon . T hus we careered unti l wel l

on in the afternoon,when weary

,wet

,disgusted and

starving we decided to put up in Harby and have

some food . I suggested going to the Crown I nn,

which we had previously passed ; Mary,however,

assured me that the White Hart wasfar superior inevery way

,so we went there and were greeted by a

fat old woman and lame boy who helped us to put“ The Swell ” in. I then asked for gruel . T hey had

a tin of N eave ’ s baby food which l/i ey cal led oatmeal.

I said,Have you not got any real Scotch oatmeal ?

”

T his is far better than they hever ’ave in Scotland

they don ’t know what hoatmeal is there ,” repl ied the

o ld woman . I felt that to convince her would be

hopeless,but did my best

,and also mentioned that l

was Scotch. Ever afterwards she looked upon me

as a kind of civi l ised savage,and marvel led at my

being able to talk Engl ish so distinctly. Her gruel

was very in ferior, but I got a feed of corn for“ The



Saturday, 9th March — Meet at Rid l ington ;iro v e in a hirel ing waggonette . We saw the B lairs

i t the meet , also M iss Margot T ennant,M iss

Sheffield , Launcelot Lowther,Al lan and Peggy

Finch ,Major Brocklehurst

,etc . Muriel rode her

grey, father“The Swel l ” . Rosie and I pursued in

:he hirel ing,and having a very rash and keen driver

we went remarkably wel l and ‘

Saw a good deal. T hey

3ad a fast run to N ormanton .

T uesday,1 2 th March.

—Launde Abbey.

’

Mr.

Baird sent a mare on for me,but Ro sie was going

.0 Ashwel l so mounted me on her gal lant quad T he

Emperor A tremendous (and amusing) crowd

)ut . Mr. J ack Fol lett,Mr. Hugo Haig

,and

Tundreds of others. A long ride home by myself,which I enj oyed . Did not care much for the day as

t hunt

Friday,

1 5th March —Father and Mr. Baird

lunted with the Quorn at Hungerton . Drew B il les

len Coplow blank . Found first fox at Lord Morton’

s

:over,and ran

,but not for long. Found again at

Scraptoft, and had a good run , ending near Leicester ;line teen miles to ride home . Found and eventual ly

ost their fox .

Saturday, t 6th March —Meet at Stapleford ,

b/II‘. Hornby’s place . Enormous meet. Mr. Baird

lob ly mounted both father and me ; he on . the

rey,me on “ Pol ly

,

” whom I l iked very much . She

vas very pleasant to ride and jumped nicely with a

3ad. We found quite soon ,and ran wel l but slowly

ver some of the best country. Rosie on “The

COL . ANSTRUTHER T HOMSON 2 39

Emperor went wel l as usual . We eventual ly went

to Bur ley-ou-the-H i l l , and after drawing for ages found

again,but could make nothing of it, so presently we

jogged home to Barleythorpe. I enjoyed the dayimmense ly .

Monday, 1 8th March—Breakfast quite early,

Major Wickham ,father and I . Lady E . appeared

just as the fly arrived,and they found they had

al lowed about two minutes to get to Oakham in .

However, they did just catch their train. We

(father and I ) proceeded by train with the horses

to Kettering. T here we drove to the Royal Hotel

and took rooms . We j ogged on to Hardwicke to

hunt the P ytchley. Got there too ear ly. Presently

B il l Goodal l and the long-eared hounds appeared ;whips

,J ack I saacs and Al fred Wi l son. Presently

up drove Mr. Nat‘Langham

,Mr. Austin Mackenzie ,

(Woodland) Pytchley. Mr. A. Mac . begged us to

go h ome and stay'

the night w ith him,which we

,

however,decl ined . Captain Bay and Charl ie M iddle

ton,Whitehead

,Lucas Foster

,Count Hat z fe ldt and

Mr. Cecil Legard out. Found in Ro ehillgorse , ran up

to Finedown vil lage,and lost h im . Drew Co ckroo st .

T om J ol ly reminded father of the day on which he

had drawn it twice and found both times. T hey

drew Orl ingbury spinneys also blank. Old Mr.

Al lan Young (an old pal of father’

s) was driving

about in a pony-carriage. We went into his house

and got some food,so did another girl . I do not

know her name,but father said he thought She must

be a parson’

s daughter because she . rode w i th a


crupper ! We then went to catch up the hunt at

Hardwicke Wood . T rotting down by the side of

Sywel l Wood I was going on first,and sudden ly

heard a kind of crash , and on looking round found

T he Swel l” upside down with my poor father under

neath h im in a ditch . H e said afterwards he could

no t quite make out what made The Swel l”

fal l,

but he supposed he must have sl ipped,and in fal l ing

father saw the horse ’s eyes ! I was horribly

frightened . However,merciful ly

,father was not

badly hurt . He had a deep cut on his chin,pro

bably where “The Swel l

’

s ” fore-foot hit h im,and

which bled incessantly the whole of that day and

night. He also broke one of his back teeth,which

annoyed him awful ly. He got on again at once,

and we soon caught up the hounds in the wood .

T hey crossed over the road at the end of Sywel l

Wood and ran nicely over some fields. We final ly

lost in a v i l lage,through which we had that morning

passed . I t then being pretty late and scent ap

pare ntly bad ,we two decided to return to Kettering

,

which we accordingly d id . We afterwards heard

that they had found again in Poor’s Close,and ran

for an hour and a quarter,kil l ing at the same vil lage.

T hat morning the landlady had asked me what

we would have for d inner. I repl ied,

“Oh

,we

shal l not want either soup or fish,just give us chops

and a couple of poached eggs ; that wi l l be enough

without pudding T o our aston ishment,however,

we were feasted with not only soup and fish,but also

an entree , leg of tough mutton partridge and four



T iney, and the luggage horses and men,and drove

in ahansom to 4 A lbert Street , to visit Mr. Heysham

(honorary treasurer of the Hunt Benefit Society).A very nice old man

,but suffers terribly from gout.

He fed us sumptuously on tea,cold chicken and

tongue. We then went on to see Mr. Hugo Haig

in h is bachelor rooms. He was del ighted to see us,

and showed father the letter (afterwards printed andin al l sporting papers) he had written to Cap tain

Soames about the Pytchley Hunt fund. On our

return to Rugby station we met Charl ie Guthrie and

a friend on thei r way back from hunting. He nobly

offered me a mount and asked us to stay with him at

N ewton . We also saw Mr. Melvi l le Cartwright.

We eventual ly arri ved at Atherstone about six and

were met by J ohn Pye . Drove in a fly and pair to

C l iff House,where we found Mr. and Mrs. Oake ley,

both most cordial,cheery and kind.

Wednesday,20th March—Meet at C l ifton. We

drove on to the meet. M rs. Colvi l le in a bath-chair

drawn by a donkey and pursued by a hospital nurse

and boy. Father rode a nai l ing black horse of T om

A lkin’

s ; j umped l ike a cricket-bal l. He found it

very difficult to remain on,as he bounded so. I

rode a bay mare with huge mane,the property of

Mr. Alkin’

s niece ; saddled with an enormous and

uncomfortable howdah and prominent right side

pommel . Mare pul led dead and had a l ight brid le

on,I could not hold her a bit

,which I at once dis

covered . Drew Cl ifton Rough b lank and then Mr.

(Harry) T ownsend’

s new cover also blank. He


(Mr. H . T .) was much downcast in consequence.

Brick H i l l cover (T horpe), blank. Found in T horpe

gorse. A single hound spoke to the line . F i rst

whip,N ed Farmer , stopped it, but two more escaped

and would not be stopped . Bevan then started and

hol loaed,and proceeded to hunt with those three

hounds regard less of the rest of the pack,which were

eventual ly rushed on to where the three were. Mymare became wildly excited

,and tore along with me

with her head in the air bang into a bl ind ditch ,and

of course down we both came. I j umped up immedi

ately and never let go the reins and proceeded to

scramble on by a gate,simply plastered with mud

and a horrible d irty sight. T hus my de’oul in the

Atherstone country ! A certain Mr. Wi lkinsonkindly came to my rescue. He is bl ind of an eye

and rides quite beautiful ly,and was ever after known

as my del iverer. He was always wi l l ing and good

about helping one in d ifficul ties. T hey of course

lost their fox,and we al l went to T horpe and were

fed on mutton pies and brown sherry by the I nges .

I was introduced to them and to Maud Russel l . I

here borrowed a real and double brid le and the mare

went better,but st i l l pul led fearful ly

,and I was not

coachman at al l that day. We drew Amington

(F i sher’s) blank ,

then N ewton gorse,where we found

scent doubtful ; only succeeded in running a ring

back into the gorse and then jogged home , having

had a howler and thoroughly rotten day. Bevan ,

huntsman ; N ed Farmer whipping-in to him. Fred

Claydon bound up in straps,having strained himself

16


going to N orfolk Hounds . Mr. Fountain

Fol lett ’s brother) is master.Friday

,2 2 nd March—M eet at T hree Pot

drove on. I rode Mr. Foxwel l’

s nice brown

good hunter with pleasant manners and good r

J . A. T . ,big bay horse of Mr. Drack ley

’

s ; hat

steeplechased the week before ; behaved

demon and ran away al l day. Drew Bu

Wood ; crowds of stockingers , who greetedwith “ U l lo

,Cap tin,

got back to your hold

ave yer ! Could not we drink yer ’

ealth th

morning ? Very large field . N ettie T o v

and her father,Mr. J ack Fol lett and Hugo

Mr. and Mrs. Young (Green T .

’

S sister), etc.Pots spinneys blank ; Wo o lvey blank ; Att

blank ; Lindly olan /é. T oo disgusting ani

heartening. Horrid j ogging day on a most 1

fo rtab le and tiring saddle. We at last ent

Caldeco t,where we had tea and saw some 0

beautiful rooms and the electric l ightings there !

drove home in a more cheery state. How I

blank day. Lady de Cl ifford dined at C l iff. Cr

as usual .

Saturday, 2 3rd March—Meet at Corley.

rode “ Fairy,

I Harbinger,very fresh .

P ierrepont rode a horse with a si lver tube in its

for roar ing. We al l,Mr. and Mrs. Oak ele ‘

and Cis,Mr. and Cis Cal lender

,father and I

,

on to Arbury ; lovely old place, belonged to

godfather, Mr. Newdegate . Got on our horse

and trotted on to Corley,the meet. Cro i



his hind leg. I kept on wondering how long it

would last and how much I should get trodden down

before any one would come. I t al l se emed sue/i

ages. I must have looked too rid iculous for words,

walking on my head and hands backwards,being

buffeted forwards by Harby’

s”

hind feet and back

by his front legs,whi le myfeet were perched proudly

on the saddle. Every one thought it was a dangerous

accident,consequently most of the field stopped and

Mr. Rowley Beach and anothe r gentleman came to

my rescue. I said , I t is no use try ing to l ift me,

please undo my habit ! By degrees I was let down

and fel t very jumpy . After many struggles and kicks

I was hoisted on to poor old Harby’

s” back again

,

and we pursued the fas t van ish ing hunt. T hrough

Corley again and they eventual ly ki l led Harby”

pul led and plunged l ike a demon,in fact his fal l has

hopelessly demoral ised him. Found again at Cowlees,

through Arbury,fox in view for one field

,ran through

Annesley Park,Stockingford.

T uesday,

2 6th March .

— Cl iff,

Atherstone.

Packed,etc . ; ear ly lunch . Drove in hired fly to

N uneaton went by train from there to Leamingt on,

where we had to change stations and wait hours. At

last we reached Swindon and put up our horses at

Deacon’

s while we went to the Goddard Arms,a

most charming and comfortable hotel .

Wednesday,

2 7 th March—Up early and left

Swindon by the 8 A.M . train. J ust as the train was

moving father received a wire from the Duke to say

they would wait for next train. However it was


then too late to change,so off we went. Got out at

Daun'

sey and went to the inn where we waited hours.

We got on our gees,I on “

Fairy,

” father on Har

binger,and dawdled down to the meet at Swal lets

Gate,

” the same place where they met 2 2 nd February,

1 87 1 , the day of the Great Wood run. T he first

people we met were Colonel and Mrs. Helm. N el ly

and Captain Atherley,Colonel Peter M i les and two

or three others were al l we knew at first. After

hours of weary waiting,Lord Worcester trotted up

with the hounds,fol lowed by the Duke and most

of the field. We al l proceeded to draw a gorse .

“Fairy awful ly fresh and peacocked along and was

much admired by the Duke . Father committed me

to the care of T om Morgan,Captain Spicer

’

s hunts

man,who told me a good deal about Vincent

,etc .

Drew gorse ; chopped fox there . Found Great

Wood ; fearful ride. H enry Baker (Hardwicke)came and talked to us. Good run ; ki l led at WebbWood. Fol lowed Lady Cholmondeley. Drew

Dauney Strips ; did not find. My hat came Off.

Lord Dangan lent me his pin. We arrived at

Chippenham and joined Nay and drove to Badm in

ton,leaving our ho rses to fol low with Henderson .

We

'

go t to Badminton about seven ; The Duchess

came down the passage to welcome us saying,

How glad I am to see you She took us into

the ante-drawing-room,where we chatted

,and then

took us upstairs and into my room . T hen I and

Nay unpacked and dressed . Dinner very late,

about nine . The Duke took me in. Mr. Hol ford


the other side. B i l l iard-room after dinner. Bed

very late. Duke,Duchess

,Lady Edward

,Mr.

Blagrave , Mr. Holford ,Mr. M e llidew

,Major

McAlp ine .

T hursday,2 8th March—Badminton . At break

fast Lady Edward asked me if I would care to drive

in her cart,so off we started at about twe lve. Meet

Lower Woods. Lord Worcester mounted father

on a charming chestnut cal led “Speculation ,

with

perfect manners and most pleasant to ride , and four

years Old. Lady Edward drove me in a nice l ittle

cart with charming piebald pony cal led Paintbox ”

.

H is one fault was he would not stand stil l for one

single second. Got home very late for luncheon ;others had finished .

Friday,2 9th March—Father hunted with Captain

Spicer’ s hounds and rode “

The Swell ” . Duchess

drove me in the V ictoria. She had to pay cal ls and

visit poor people in the vil lage. T om Morgan,

huntsman.

Saturday, 3o th March—M eet Burton v il lage.

Father rode Harbinger,

” who rushed l ike a demon

I “Fai ry Duke

,Lord Worcester

,Lord and Lady

Edward ; Dr. N oble Smith mounted by the Duke

on Lord E.

’

s horse,muen to the latter ’s annoyance.

He tnrusled wildly and made his quad very hot.

Found in Oldlands covert,crossed the Foss and

ran to Dunley. Scent bad . Found again at Lord ’s

Wood ; ran through Lady Wood and near ly as faras the steeplechase course at Sherston ; final ly lost

in Leigh Delamere cover.



M iss N evil le and I . We drove in a waggonette with

a nice keen coachman,and saw a great deal . We

viewed the ti red fox when every one else had lost

him,and so helped the hunt considerably

,and Were

proportionately del ighted with ourselves. -We got

home about four,I th ink

,and found that Na had

got al l the things packed and ready. Mr. Butt

M i l lar,father and I had early dinner

,and then Na

and I started off and drove to Yate station,where

the Duke had requested the night express to stop for

me.

CHAP TER X I.

P ETERBOROUGH HOUND SHOW .

31 July,1 889 ,

I was President of the Peter

h Hound Show,and went to stay at Wiverton

.rs. Musters. N icholas Charlton and his wife

Tere. I went in a cab with Jarvis “

(T wofrom the rai lway station . He said

,

“ You

ve to make a speech ”

.

“What shal l I talk“Wire —curse it ! ”

er the luncheon I said ' At end of last

I was out with twelve different packs of

s and saw some of the most d istinguished

.i en,both professional and amateur

,and to my

the prevail ing fault is the sileni syslem . I f a

nan goes into a big wood and changes h is

on without some noise,his men cannot tel l

he is or his hounds either,and then the

s are driven about without knowing where to

You had much better hear the cheery voice

untsman than the harsh rate of a whipper-in .

of you older sportsmen may remember old

Seabright in Bedford purl ieus carrying his

5,

‘Come forward,come forward !

’

through

ude s of fresh foxes without changing his fox ;have seen and heard Jack Musters, when his


hounds were toi l ing along after a fox,scream with

his h igh-pitched voice T hey would raise their

hackles and race each other. Who says,then

,that

there is no merit in a huntsman’

s voice ? Wirefences have destroyed the fun of rid ing across

country,and the Si lent system the cheeriness of

running in covert.

After the lunch N imrod Long and several

huntsmen came to me and said,

“We agree with

every word you said ”

.

Fo r best three couple of dog hounds the president

had the privi lege of presenting a cup,so I had the

pleas ure of sending Wi l loughby de Broke a chequethat he might get what he l iked .

N ext day I intended to go to London,and

having an hour to spare in N ott ingham,I left

luggage at station and went to see Bel l T aylor. I

said ,

“ I don ’ t see quite so wel l as I d id ” “ I see

what i t is ; I’ l l soon put i t right for you I lay

down on the sofa and he touched my eye with a

needle. He said,T he membrane which surrounds

the cataract has thickened ”

. T hey cal l th is opera

tion scratc/i ing. H e gave me a cup of soup , put a

rug over me and sent for my luggage,and I fel l

asleep.

I went into the same lodging,M iss Sulley

’

s,and

telegraphed to Ol ive to come to me . I could on ly

dictate my telegram,so they made a mess of it

,

cal led her Ol iver and sent it to some place in

Lancash ire . Fortunately N icholas Charlton and his

wife came to see me and he put it right for me ,and



for the ladies !’ ‘

T hree cheers for the ladies ! ’

sung out the clerk,and instantly the congregation

rose and made the rafters ring again with their

cheers.

Your sincere old friend,

“ E . W. L . DAV1ES.

l o th J anuary,1 890.

— I went up to Bar leythorpe.i l th —Cottesmore Hounds at B isbrooke. Go s

l ing mounted me on a nice bay horse.

i 3th.—Holywel l . Farquhar mounted me on a

chestnut horse. Came home lame.

14th .—Launde Abbey. Baird mounted me on

his grey horse.

1 6th — Left Barleythorpe and went to Bywel l .

George Fenwick i l l in bed . I d id not see him.

Owen Wal l i s was there .

1 7 th .-Tynedale Hounds met at Bywel l . N icho

las Corn ish,the old huntsman ,

had become game

keeper to Hugh Fenwick,and was out hunting on

foot . I told him I had come to see Armstrong ’

s

factory. He said,A fine place that, sir

”

. How

do you know ?” said I . “ I sent my son into it as

an apprentice,and he worked on ti l l he became a

foreman. One of the firm was sent out to China incharge of an arsenal and my son went out as second .

After a time the principal d ied , and my son got the

appointment,worth a year. While at

Bywel l I heard of Sir Robert Dalye ll’

s death very

suddenly at the N ew Club. He was buried on the

2 3rd at St. Andrews . I went home for the funeral.


4th March—Forth Bridge opened by the Prince

ofWales. Randolph Wemyss gave me two tickets .I took M iss E l sie Macleod to see it. I t was

b lowing a hurricane and bitterly cold . We took

plenty of plaids and a carriage apron . We got on

the lee side of one of the iron pi l lars, rol led the plaids

round us, and remained there . Hats flew away by

the dozen,and the ladies’ pett icoats got up to the

point from which they would not go down again !

T he Prince came Slowly across the bridge in a train ,

and on its return we got under the shelter of the

carriages and walked alongside of them.

1 4th—Lord Loughborough came of age. T hey

gave him a dinner at Dysart. I went to stay at

Dunnik ier for it.

2 6th August—My dear friend Francis Lord

Rosslyn died at Dysart, and was buried at Rosl in

Chapel.

George Cheap e was at this time Master of the

Linl ithgow and St irl ingshire Hounds. He went to

America to look after his property,leaving Mrs.

Cheap e in command,and asked me to go over

sometimes to help her. N ed Co tesworth was

huntsman,and his brother whipped-in to him.

T hey had pretty good sport al l the season . I often

went over and rode George Cheap e’

s horses,and

stayed in Edinburgh at the N ew Club. At the

end of the season the horses were sold at Leicester

and Mr. Cross succeeded as master.

I n May there was an exhibit ion at Edinburgh ,

and a prize of £ 100 was offered for the best musical


ride . F i fe , Forfar, and the Lothians and Berwick

shire Yeomanry competed . F i fe was first,Lothians

second,and Forfar third . F i fe was ten points better

in the performance of the ride,but the Fife

’

and

Forfar only rode on their own hunting saddles

and the Lothians had the regulation saddle . The

judges took seven points off because our saddles

were not high off the horses ’ withers ! and the

Lothians were al lowed to attend the tournament at

I sl ington .

H unting Tour w it/i Rosie,1 89 1 .

1 6th February,1 89 1 .

—Went on Monday to

Bywel l. Rosie was already there . T ook Donaldson

with “Fairy

,

” and a roan horse of Charles Rogers’

of Balgove sent them direct to Wiverton .

T uesday,1 7 th February—Bywel l Hal l , North

umberland. Morpeth Hounds met . Drove to

the Wagon I nn ; got our horses there . J . A. T

the “T umbler ” ° R. A. T .

,Kitty’ s horse

,a cl inker.

The T umbler,a good confidential horse ; the

hounds,a racing-looking lot ; sixteen couple. J ack

Rance,the huntsman

,an energetic chap and a good

horseman,but with one prevail ing fault

,of riding

away from his hounds and blowing for them to come

to him. Drew al l the best coverts blank,t i l l about

three o ’clock. T hen we got on a disturbed fox in

some plantations ; very l ittle scent ; made a mess of

it. Found again in one of Mr. Perkin’ s gorses

,and

ran l ike blazes across the river at River Green

M i l l ; ran to ground final ly. I left them at Molt



The establishment consists of twenty-five couple of

hounds and three horses ; two days a week Colonel

Cowan,the master.

T hursday,

1 9 th February—VViverton ,N otts.

Left Bywel l in bri l l iant sunshine,and arrived at

Wiverton in a horrible cold th ick fog.

Friday,20th — Lord Harrington

’ s hounds met at

Wiverton . Colonel Gardyne got “ Mermillo,

”

as

R0 would not let me go out. T hey did nothing

much .

Saturday,2 ISt ,—Belvoir met at Piper Hole and

had a cl inking day. So foggy and beastly we did

not go .

Monday,2 3rd.

— Quornmet atWi l loughby. Very

hot day ; got baked going to covert . Rode “Fairy ”

R0,roan horse. Found in Ro -hoe

,and hunted a fox

steadily o ver the ploughs for nearly an hour. T om

F irr got the hounds wel l away through the crowd .

Drew Wynstay gorse blank and found in Owthorpe.

Ran about the hil l s,through Colston Basset (where

we left them), and final ly got to ground .

T uesday,

2 4th— Lord Harringt on at Stragle

thorpe. Drove there with Mermillo” in the dog

cart (J . A. T . and R0). T hey drew blank,

and got on a disturbed fox at Cotgrave gorse.

T hey ran away from us,so we came back to lunch .

The whip,J ack Brown

,got his thumb bitten off

by the fox “or terrier after they had run to

ground.

2 5th—Belvoir at Croxton Park. Kane Croft

,

fi rst whip. I rode Fairy ”

.


2 6th—LeftWiverton went to Girsby. Raunsby,

Southwold ; Arthur Fortescue , the parso n .

2 7 th.

—Bro ck leby Hounds at Sudbury. Met

Colonel Richardson and Lady Yarborough,who

asked us to come to Heal ing on Monday .

2 8th —Burton Hounds. Rode Fairy ”

. Wi l son,

master ; Bentley,huntsman . Rode home with

Elsley and Dobson .

2 nd March—Went to B rocklesby by first train .

M e t at Heal ing . R ichardson mounted us both.

3rd—Very cold ; returned to Girsby . I d id not

go out. Me t Rawnsley at South Wi l l ingham.

4th—Yarborough Hounds at L inwood . Rode

Fairy Came home lame.

5th .—Southwold Hounds at Girsby. Found a

fox in a pit. Ran a cracker for an hour and ki l led .

Rode Rawnsley’

s young horse. Found another fox

in a pit and ki l led h im. Rode another young horse.

T he country is very open,and very often the fox is

in V iew the whole time. When Captain Dal las and

Captain Fo x were j oint masters they bought twenty

fiv e couple of my hounds at B icester. J ack Morgan

was then huntsman of the Southwold .

6th—Went to Doddington to stay wi th J arvis.

7 th.

— Sk illingthorp e plantations . J arv 1s ’ ho unds

a beautiful pack al l bred from two bitches. Link

boy,

”

a beautiful dog .

9th.

-J arvis’ Hounds. Rode his horse Cocoa

101h .

—Rufford Hounds at Kelham . Went bytrain with J arvis to Relford . Rode “

Fai ry ”

1 7"


Came home very lame. Launcelot Ro l l eston,

master and huntsman ; a nice workmanl ike con

cern .

1 1 th — Put Fairy in the train and sent h im

home to Charleton .

1 2 th .—J arvis’ Hounds at Aystho rp e . . Rode

Cocoanut”

. Found on the banks of a river and

ran into Sk illingtho rp e plantations.

1 3th—R0 went toWiverton with Donaldson and

the roan horse,which jumped capital ly. I went to

the Bel l Hotel at Leicester,and on the 14th bought

“The Rake Had lunch wi th Edward Baldock

and his wife. Put The Rake into the train to

Harby and went to Wiverton .

1 6 th March—Quorn at “Ab Kettleby Rode

Merm illo Got gruel at Broughton .

1 8th — Croxton Park,the Belvoir. Rode chest

nut horse of Gale’

s ; R0 T he Rake Went toLondon afterwards to Charl ie Bab ington

’

s,Gloucester

P lace . B il l and Clayre arrived from Austral ia.

1 9 th .

—Had lunch with B i l l and went to the

stores.

2 o th—Went with Charl ie B . to Alfrey’

s brewery.

Had three bottles of porter for lunch,and saw the

horses. H e has the management of them it is very

wel l done (about

2 l st . —Went down to E ssex Union at B il lericay.

Courage gave me a mount. Went to Carnegy’

s at

Gatwick,and back to London on 2 2 nd. On 2 4th

went down to Oake ley’

s at C l iff. Sent Donaldson

and horses to the inn at Twycross.



Mr. Atherston Brown lent me a cl ipping horse,a

very hard pul ler,but a grand jumper. I got on

capital ly with him ; but j umping into a lane he

jumped so far that he landed in the ditch on the

other side. R0 was riding “The Rake

,but he lost

a shoe or someth ing,and She got a roan

,a four-year

old of Drack ley’

s. I t had never been out hunting

before and refused every fence ; lucki ly the y were

not very big ones. She always managed to make

him scramble through,and caught us in the next

field.

2 nd —We went to Bay M iddleton ’s at Hazel

beech and sent Donaldson and the horses to

Weedon .

3rd— Pytchley Hounds at Brockhal l. Bay

mounted us both. J . A. T .,Mayo R0

,Gold

finch”

. Lord Spencer asked us to come to Al thorpe,

but had to put us off on account of Lord Granville’

s

death . Drew Brockhal l blank,and Harpole H i l l .

Found N obo ttle . Ran wel l along the spinney.

N0 good on the plough . Found again in Sanders’

gorse . Ran somewhere and back again . Found a

mangy fox in Buckby Fol ly ; got to ground ; drew

spinney blank and went home. Had tea at J ohn

Cooper’

s.

6th —Grafton Hounds at Yardley Chase. Horses

came from Weedon . T he Rake”

for me,roan for

R0. Hounds were running hard when we got to the

wood. We never heard a man’s voice for an hour.

Got out of the wood on a stale scent. Hounds

worked capital ly . Smith very quiet. Ran with a

COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 2 63

catching scent over deep ploughs. Left them at

Olney. Very cold ; thunder and l ightn ing,and

snow at Yardley Hastings. Rode home with Britton,

Sanders and Horsey. M e t Fred Welch at N orthampton station and returned to Hazelbeech.

7 th.—Cowper

’

s Oak,Oakley Hounds. J ohn

Horsey mounted me on a nice young black horse.

Rosie went to Leamington steeple-chase with Bay

and Mrs. M iddleton . Hounds ran wel l . T om

Whitmore got a bad fal l ; hurt his knee and had togo home. Met R. at Rugby ; dined with the

Beatties,and slept at the George Hotel .

8th—Atherstone Hounds at Coombe. I rode

The Rake sent him home. Oakley let me ride

his big horse. E lmhurst lent me a black mare which

I rode into Rugby.

oth — Cl iff. Atherstone point-to-point race.

l o th—Left Cl iff,and went to George Hotel ,

Rugby.

1 1 th — Castle Ashby,Oakley Hounds. Rode

Horsey ’s black horse. Lawrence hunting the

hounds. R0 rode the roan . Mr. Tanqueray was

out and bought the roan . Left him at Horsey’

s

stables,and sent h im to Tanqueray

’

s on Mon

day . Went to London on Monday to B il l and

Clayre .

14th . Hertfordshire Hounds at Hatfield .

Sworder with a top hat. Tanqueray lent

me roan horse. Charles Harris,huntsman . Dog

hounds l ight in condition . Found in the park ; good

cry and good scent ; ran hard . Harris n ice voice


and good horseman . A concern.

hour and kil led .

1 5th—Returned to Edinburgh ; stayed

Club.

1 7 th—Ol ive and Ann Dundas 1 gave a bal l at the

Windsor Hotel.

1 Now Lady D ickson P oynder.



not catch one. Sir Wi l l iam and Lady Wi l l iamscame and Mr. and Mrs. Hole.

2 5th—Show at Holsworthy ; rain and thunder

storm. Found Major Burrowes 1 3th

Light Dragoons,j udging with Captain Wi l l iamson .

T hey went to T etcott after the show,and we went to

Ashbury and put up there to make room for them .

2 6th.- Back to Holsworthy for puppy Show.

Littleworth,Lord Portsmouth

’

s huntsman,and '

Mr.

Coryton,judges.

2 9th — London,Hodnet

,Adderley

,and home on

3rd J uly.

8th J uly—F ife Light Horse dri l l at Cupar . Fel l

over a tent rope and hurt my knee, and was laid up

for four days.

1 5th— I nspection by Colonel Duncombe ; rode

Fairy Ring

1 8th—H ighland Society Show at Stirl ing. We

went to Claude Hamilton’

s at Dunmore for it. Col in

Mackenzie,Macpherson Grants and General and

Mrs. Briggs staying there,the Fergusson Buchanans

and Ken Fergusson.

2 6th March ,1 89 2 .

—We went to Wiverton .

2 8th.—Quorn at Six-H i l l s.

2 9th—T o Bentley Manor and B ickmarsh.

3 Ist.-Warwickshire Hounds at Dorsington .

M rs. Cheap e gave me a mount on a grey horse ;very l ittle scent. I n the afternoon hunted up to a

big wheatfie ld and checked there. Heard a V iew

hol loa. Wi l loughby gal loped up the hi l l above theriver and found the Cotswold whipper-in. He said,



was awful ly cold,and my wife went inside. Lady

VVestmo reland was staying there .

14th — Returned to Bath .

1 8th—We went to Syd l ing.

l gth— I hunted at B ridport with Chandy

,the

Co lefoxes’ place.

2 o th — Me t near Sydl ing. Chandy gave wife a

mount,a lovely white horse cal led Foot-it Scent

bad ; not much sport .

2 1 st—Another hunt with Chandy. M iddle

marsh,the B lackmore Vale Hounds. Left Evershot

station and went to London .

2 6th—Returned to Bath .

2 7th— Badminton Steeplechase. T rained to

Chippenham,and from there on the Devizes coach

Walters drove. T owney ”

Oswald went with us.

I t poured most of the time.

3o th April—We went to Adderley for Sunday.

Spent the afternoon with Reggie Corbet in the

kennels ; a lovely pack of hounds. Young Charl ie

Littleworth,huntsman.

I n September, 1 89 2 ,the Duke of Cambridge

came to Edinburgh to inspect the Carabineers in

Duddingston Park. I took “Sultan over

,a beauti

ful black horse,who had been my son ’s charger in

the 2 nd Life Guards. Colonel Macgeo rge was in

command of the regiment,and I went to luncheon

at P ie rshill after the inspection . General Annesley

was the general in command of the Scottish district.

My youngest ch ild was born on the 1 9th of

October and named Rachel J ean.


Rosie was married to Colonel Burn in December,

1 89 2 . T hey went to I ndia for their honeymoon .

H is old regiment,the 1 8th Hussars

,was at Umbal la

,

and they went to stay with them .

She wrote the fol lowing account of her tour

RA1LWAY HOTEL , CAWNP ORE,

1 7 th F ebruary ,1 893 .

I have not written to you for an age,and we

never get any letters by any chance as we are always

on the move . We have been having a lo vely time

since I wrote last from Umbal la. I forget i f I told

you about my jackal hunt. I t was such fun . I went

out real ly (on an Arab pony lent me by a kind man

in the 1 8th) for a paper-chase , which is the nearestthey can get to a hunt in those stations but as it fel l

through,I went off with the Bobbery pack

,which

I descried in the distance— about four couple of

terriers,a decayed foxhound

,and one overgrown

beagle.

“Two of the 1 8th became fired with emulation

and came too. T he whip was a native mounted on

a half-starved grey pony,and dressed in bare legs

,

white cotton flowing drawers,a long black coat

,and

on his head a purple velvet ‘pork-pie ’ trimmed with

gold embroidery ; he also blew a horn . I enj oyed

my hunt and gal loped just behind the one foxhound

al l the time,as he was the only hound who ever

threw his tongue at al l,and it sounded l ike business.

We final ly ki l led a j ackal,after running over awful

ground for about three miles. I was so del ighted I


clamoured for the brush,which I at last induced the

purple velvet-headed whip to tear off with h is hands,

as no one had a kn ife. I t has since transpired the

jackal was a bagman . The brush I mean to cl ing

to in spite of its awful smel l , which is a sort of

mixture of fox and onions,and our be arer was

anxious to pack it up (uncured) amo ng David’

s clean

shirts,but was final ly induced to put it in his own

clothes-box .

We left Umbal la on the 4th February and went

down to Delhi for a night. From there we went to

Lucknow for the race week. Lord Roberts was

very nice,and on Sunday he took a big party of us

round the Residency and explained al l about the

mutiny to us,and told us h is own experiences at the

time. I t was the most interesting thing I ever

heard,and such a chance hearing it from his own

l ips. We left Lucknow on Sunday and came on

here to Cawnpore. We have settled to come home

on the Rome,which leaves Bombay on the 8th

Apri l . Lord Roberts and his party are going on

her ; also Mrs. Gough and several other people we

have made friends with out here . So i t ought to be

rather n ice if it keeps calm. T o -morrow we are

going out pig-sticking here ; the first meet of the

season . I expect we shal l go on from here to

Benares on Sunday,and thence to Calcutta

”

On another occasion they went out on elephants .

“Ours went perfectly wild and bolted o ff in al l

d i rectio ns,while every one fled before us. I t ’s bad


2 7 2 REMINISCENCES OF

an obstacle over which Mr. Murray Honey came to

great grief and cut his cheek badly. Lord Roberts

also got his nose very severely scratched by a tree.

Ronald lost his hat,and I think Colonel Hamilton

’s

horse refused. Anyhow,M . d

’

Estournelles was the

only one perfectly triumphant. On being introduced

to my father,he took off his hat with a court ly

sweep. My father said ,You must excuse me

,sir ;

I cannot move my cap,for my eye is stuck in it ” .

(He had a single eyeglass screwed into his hunting

cap .) Ah,then you wil l know me when you see

me again,

” was M . d’

Estournelle s’ answer. The

Raith party lunched at Balcarres and then came on

here to Charleton .

I n the meantime I sobel,Evelyn Anstruther and

I had had some food,and sat out basking in the sun

on the steps in front of the house. I t was a most

lovely sunny day,and it seemed strange to think

that precisely a week before (Saturday,2 4th ,

’

Sep

tember) we had al l been shivering in bitter east wind

and a snowstorm . When the Raith quartet arrivedwe showed them my father ’s picture painted by Sir

Francis Grant and presented to my father by the

Pytchley Hunt in 1 870. T hey also greatly admired

the picture of my brother Charl ie in his Life Guards

uniform,painted by M r. Lo rimer

,and the statue of

Arthur by Dalou. I sobel presented her baby

Rachel,and M . d

’

Estourne lles inquired whether She

had any l ittle bothers I sobel,thinking he must

mean teething fi ts,croup or such l ike

,answered

,

“Oh

,no ; hardly any

”

. I t then turned out that he


had meant to say brot/z ers. When Lord Roberts

said good-bye,the baby seized h im by the nose

(which had already been barked by a branch). H e

gently disentangled himself and remarked,

“T here is

plenty to take hold of

I n J uly,1 894 ,

we let Charleton to the Peases of

Darl ingt on and we Spent the summer at the farm.

On the 2 7 th October I was very i l l , and in November

went to London to consult Dr. Fenwick , and was

laid up at the N orfolk Hotel . We went on to

Bath.

My daughter O l ive spent the winter in I taly

with an American friend who afterwards married an

I tal ian marquis. She wrote my wife an amusing

account of a day ’s sport in I taly

HOT EL EXCEL SIOR , VARESE,“ ITALY, z ud December

,1 894.

T he laird wil l be amused to hear that we have

been out hunting. I t was an odd performance,and

I must tel l you about it. My host promised to

choose two good hirel ings for us from M i lan,and

we were given an introduction to a certain Mme

Leonini,the Mrs. Cheap e of I taly. She came and

called on us on T hursday and was most kind and

helpful about the hunt,promised us a hearty wel

come , arranged about trains , t ime and horse bo xes

in fact godmothered us completely. Friday morning

we arose at cock-crow,trembl ing with excitement

,

and got booted and spurred a whole hour too soon .

Began to write letters,fo rgot the clock

,and as near

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as possible missed our train . We sent our horses

and groom on by first train and E tta 1 and I went

attended by the stately Ro ssignio li.

At Varese station we met Mme Leonini and

her husband who original ly started the pack . He

i s a very n ice man,with a nice voice

,and rides

beautiful ly . T hey are very rich,and have perfect

hunters nearly al l I rish thoroughbreds. Mme

Leonin i is the on ly woman who hunts here . She

does hostess to the concern,so we were under her

chaperonage. Marchese Durimi also went with

us. H e is mad about lo sport,and I am going to

present him with one of the laird ’s H ints to H unts

men.

“We spent over an hour in the train,and then

went to a funny old-fashioned inn which used to be

a palace at Gallerata,where we found a table d

’

lio‘

te

breakfast in a long low room and the assembled

fie ld—about twenty of the jeunesse dore‘e of Lom

bardy,al l ex tremely smart and would—be Engl ish

,

many in caps and red coats. T hey were al l pre

sented to us in a row,with the table between. We

exchanged endless bows and sat down utterly

bewildered with the many titled names. I made

at once for the Master (Marchese della T erre), and

told him how much I had al l my life looked forward

to a hunt in I taly. Everybody was kind and n ice

and rather Shy.

“T he Master amused me by consulting our

wishes as to what hour we Should l ike him to start,

1 Marche sa Etta de Viti dc Marco .



he is very much of a huntsman,but it is not fair to

j udge after one day l ike this. Well , we returned tothe inn at Gallerata,

and to our intense surprise found

ourselves famous, and we were overwhelmed with

complimenti,and the Master (Marchese del la T erre)

besought us to al low him to mount us in future,and

so did another misguided man . I t was altogether

too ludicrous for words. We returned by train and

al l dined at Vi l la Leonini that evening. Next day

Marchese Durini came with his brake and four-in

hand and took us a most heavenly drive right round

the big lake . He is quite a coachman,only in his pa

thetic endeavours to be [ nglese he keeps vociferating‘P ull up ! the whole time. I grieved him terribly

by reveal ing the fact that London had furn ished him

with an ordinary pair whip instead of four-in-hand

one. He i s going to take us again soon I hope , and

we are going to have some rides together. He i s

braver than my last coach—driver,but then this was

a much easier team.

I nfin ite love to the laird .

Ever yours affectionately

OLIVE.

Christmas 1 894.—We were at Wiverton . On

4th J anuary ,1 895, we went to Doddington for—three

days and returned to Wiverton .

On the 1 5th went to N ewton , Charl ie having let

it to us for four months. I t was hard frost and very

cold,and a most inconvenient house and very dark.

The stove would not burn,so we bought a laundry


stove which is now at Newbigging. I t was frost

and snow.

2 8th.—VVent to London to see Dr . Fenwick.

Coldest day of season . George Fenwick started a

toboggan near H i l l Morton . We used to hire

Goodman ’s mare and tax-cart for two -and -six a day.

Rosie and Charl ie Musters were staying with us,and

we were al l photoed in the cart.

l 6 th February—Went to East Haddon and

stayed with Charl ie Guthrie. Frost continued til l

the 2 5th.

2 6 th - Pytchley Hound s met at Stamford Park

drove there,and saw Wi l l Goodal l . We then

sent home for “ Clansman ” and hired a l itt le trap .

I sobel used to hire a capital pony from Sam

Darby,which carried her wel l . Muntz “ piloted ”

her,as I could not ride

,and only drove about.

T here was a tremendous storm of wind . Many of

the fine old elms at the school were blown down .

A l ice Graham St irl ing came to stay with us. I drove

her to the meet of N orth Warwickshire at Dun

church,got a chil l

,and had to take to my bed for a

day or two.

8th April—We drove Clansman to C l i ff.

On l o th to Crickets I nn . Had lunch at T horpe

and drove in to Atherstone. Put horse and trap on

train back to N ewton . On i 3th got home to

N ewbigging.

I n J une J ohn Gilmour lent us Kinlo chbeg for a

fortn ight. On 20th went by rail to Oban , stayed a

night,and next morning sai led in steamer fo r Onich .


Gi lmour’

s Steam launch met us there,and we steamed

1p Loch Leven to Kinlo chb eg. T he housekeep er

:ook great care of us,only gave us too much to eat .

We had two ponies to ride up to the hil l,and every

: omfo rt. T he water was very low,so there were no

fish. I sobel borrowed J o hn Gi lmour’ s boots and

waded across the river to Sketch the house . T he

horse-fl ie s were awful .

On Ist J uly we sai led down to Bal lachul ish and

went to I nverness and on to N ovar,and went to

stay with Randle J ackson at Swordale.

‘

He was

standing for the county,and we could always tel l the

pol it ics of the people he met by the manner he

saluted them. We went to a camp and review at

I nvergordon . M e t General Rowlands there,Cluny

Macpherson,J ohn Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus

,

Rev . N orman M cLe od,chaplain

,etc. Home next

day.

oth — Perth troop sports at P icton’

s H i l l .

F i fe L ight H orse inspection ought to have been

at this t ime , but was postponed on account of the

Fife e lect ion ,which took place on the t o th . J ohn

Gi lmour defeated majority, 7 1 6 . I nspection having

been postpo ned ,I knew that the Duke of Cambridge

was coming to stay at Dysart during his inspect ions

n Scotland,and requested that he would make the

nsp ectio n.

I issued the fol lowing order

F i e n /z t H orse— Regimental Order. —H is

Royal H ighness the Commander-in-Chief has noti



CHAPTER X I I I .

MY RETIREMENT FROM COMMAND OF FIFE LIGHT HORSE

—THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AT DYSART .

ON going to the orderly room on Friday,

September, I found a memorandum to th is effect

The officer named in the margin [Colonel J ohn

Anstruther T homson]wil l retire from command of

the regiment,and is permitted to retain his rank and

wear the uniform of the regiment ” . On T uesday

fol lowing I was gazetted out. I was not treated

with much courtesy by the authorities,having raised

the regiment and served thirty-five years in it,th irty

of which I was in command .

HOP ETOUN HOUSE,

SOUTH Q UEENSFERRY, Tuesday.

MY DEAR JACK,

I got your letter yesterday on our return

from Edinburgh. T his is an awful blow . I am

awful ly sorry,the more so as even another week

wo uld have been a pleasure to us al l , and you would

have died in harness as it were,instead of going

without even having a farewel l parade of your own .

What is to be done now ? I understand about

sending in an appl ication for grant as you suggest,and wil l do so later. But I would rather l ike to hear


what they say to yours first i f you are in the way of

knowing,please put me on . I am

,and I th ink the

men are,very disappointed at not being inspected

this year. I go home on T hursday.

“ Yours sincerely,

P . W. CARNEGY .

I had appl ied that the F ife Light Horse should be

al lowed capitat ion grant al though they had not been

inspected. An order came that they might be in

sp e cted within a month . I was gazetted out before

H is Royal H ighness arrived at Dysart,and he then

said that he could not inspect a regiment without a

Colonel . According to Volunteer regulations the

appl ication of a Colonel to continue in command for

another year should be sent in after tb e inspection .

But General Rowlands sent an order that it should

be sent in previously .

I t was now settled that H is Royal H ighness

would present the long service medals at Dysart on

Saturday,2 8th September

,at 10 A.M and my wife

and I went to stay there for it. I n the morn ing

J ohn Gilmour came to Dysart,and the N on-Coms .

and men who were to receive long service medals.

Mr. Waldegrav e Lesl ie also appeared. T he Duke

presented the medals. Waring also came,but

,not

having his uniform,hid himself among the bushes. 1

We then went to Edinburgh and the Duke went

to inspect the Innisk illens at P iershill. He was

joined at Edinburgh by Sir Evelyn Wood and

Waring, 1 1 th Hussars , our adjutant.


General Gipps,who was an old friend of mine

,

having hunted at Atherstone and B icester. The

Duke kindly took me in his carriage with Colonel

F itz-George and General Gipps. H e made a most

minute inspection,and then had lunch before going

to Queen ’s Park for a review . I had to go to

Waverley to meet wife,and found she had gone to

review . Colonel F i tz-George had given me a pass

to admit the carriage. M e t Duke of T eck. The

Duchess came with Lady Hopetoun and I was

presented to her. On return ing home Sir Francis

Grenfel l and General Rowlands met us at the

Waverley station . T he Duke and I were in the

carriage when Grenfel l appeared . The Duke said,

“Here comes your executioner Grenfel l said

,

N o t me—him,pointing over his shoulder at Row

lands. He afterwards told us that Rowlands had

forwarded my appl ication without recommending it.

We al l returned to Dysart with the Duke,a salute

being fired from the castle,twenty-one guns. Gren

fel l was General in charge of Auxil iary Forces.

(F rom my VVife’

s journal.)

2 7 th September. -Left N orthcl iffe,St. Andrews

(where we had been for the golf meeting), at fouro ’clock

,and arrived at Dysart about six o ’clock.

The Duke had just come and his son,Colonel

George F itz-George. T hey,the two Lady Rosslyns ,

and Lord Rosslyn and F itzroy E rskine were’ the only

party. We played whist, and ,actual ly , Lord Rosslyn

and I won . T he Duke gave me a shil l ing , and said ,



Monday, 3o th September. —T he Duke departed

at about H is train was forty minutes late at

Dysart. We went with the Rosslyn ladies to see

him off and made our sad farewel l,and had only just

time to fly back in the V ictoria with B lanche,Lady

Rosslyn,have luncheon and drive up again to our

train,and returned to N ewbigging.

A few days after we received the fol lowing

invitation

F orfar n lz t H orse—Maj or Carnegy and

officers request the honour of Colonel and Mrs.

Anstruther T homson ’s company at the annual regi

mental dinner in the Royal B ritish Hotel , Dundee,on T hursday

,l o th October

,at seven p m ,

to meet

Colonel Anstruther T homson on h is reti rement from

the service.“RS . V P . to

“ CORP ORAL J . S FAIRWEATHER,

H on. Sec.

”

T he Colonel had been unwel l for some days , and

got out of bed to go to Dundee.

T hursday,

10th October,

1 895.-Letter came

from Major Pat saying,

“Hope you can come . I f

not , we are done -but we have often been before.

”

So the Colonel wired “ Coming,and we started

from Cupar at and went straight to the British

Hotel,Dundee (Corporal R icard

’ s). Found Annie

Waring . Mrs. Carnegy came in soon after and

Major Pat ; al l so del ighted the Colonel had come.

We went down to dinner at seven o ’clock. I sat


between Maj or Pat and Mrs. Lindsay Carnegy.

Mrs. Carnegy was next Major Pat on the other side ,and then the Colonel with Mrs. Ritch ie

,the chaplain

’

s

wife , next him. Our table was across the end of the

room and two long ones down the two sides. T he

toasts were as usual,then Captain War ing ’ s

,then the

toast of the even ing,

“The Colonel

,and Mrs .

Anstruther T homson,

”

proposed by Maj or Carnegy.

After remarking that Mrs. T homson was the daughter

of a soldier,and took a l ively interest in al l that

concerned the Light Horse,he said : The members of

the corps al l regretted having to say good-bye in an

official capacity to Colonel T homson,and sympath ised

with him on the unceremonious way he had been

written off. T hey had hoped that he would have

been with them for another inspection at least,and

to have been inspected by H .R.H . the Duke of

Cambridge,but they had waited too long . T he

other day Colonel T homson wrote to him asking if

he would go to Edinburgh with the regiment,and he

telegraphed back he would go anywhere,but the

authorities were a l ittle too quick. T hey came in

between the arrangements,and consequently the

regiment did not go to Edinburgh . T he Forfar

Light Horse had now been n ineteen years in

existence , and he tho ught that Quartermaster Duncan ,

Sergeant-major Andrews and himself were the only

persons identified with the corps who had been in itSince the beginn ing. T urning to Colonel T homson ,

Major Carnegy said he had to ask him to accept of asmall present which would remind him of the good


t imes he had spent with the regiment. T he gi ft

consisted of a si lver cup beautiful ly chased,and he

had to ask the members to Show their regard for the

Colonel in handsel l ing the cup by drinking from it as

it was passed round . T he cup bore the fol lowing

inscription : T o Colonel J ohn Anstruther T hom

son on his reti rement from the service . From the

Forfar Light Horse . t o th October,1 895.

I n reply,Colonel T homson said He had had the

hono ur of being the guest at many compl imentary

dinners,and had received many valuable and valued

testimonials ; but he had never found so much

difficulty in replying as he did that n ight . Whenlast he addressed them he had the honour of being

their commanding officer,but now things were

changed,and he was there merely as a civ il ian

,

though he was permitted to wear the uniform and

retain the rank. H e deeply regretted having to part

from them . One of the regulations of the Volunteer

force was that commanding officers had to reti re at

the age of sixty,but he had been allowed to go on

for seventeen years longer. He was grateful to the

authorities,and trusted that thei r confidence had not

been misplaced,for the regiment was in a higher

state of discipl ine now than it had ever been .

According to the Volunteer regulat ions he had sent

in an appl ication every year for permission to retain

the command for another year. T he General now

commanding the N orthern District had forwarded

the appl ication without recommending it. T herefore

in due course he was gazetted out . He had enl isted



interest in the welfare of the troop as the mostefficient member of it.”

Mrs. Carnegy and I wept ; the men cheered

tremendously altogether it was most spirited . T hey

presented a beautiful “ loving cup,which went

al l round the table ; more than seventy I bel ieve

drank the Colonel’

s health . Songs were sung,and

we stayed ti l l the end . T he best dinner party I

ever saw ! The Colonel was so touched and

gratified by their goodness.

October,1 895.

— A few days after the Dundee

dinner I received from J ohn Gilmour the fol lowing

letter 1

ROYAL HOT EL, CUFAR

-F1FE,

1 5th October, 1 895.

DEAR COLONEL,

We have had our meeting of officers , and

al l seemed determined to do thei r utmost to carry on

the regiment . I trust we may be able to carry out

our desire. T he unanimous wish and hope was

expressed that you would al low your name to be

submitted to the authorities as Honorary Colonel of

the regiment. Please let me know yo ur wishes in

th is respect,and I shal l take the necessary steps to

have th is carried out .

I hear the Forfar dinner was a splendid success.“ Yours very truly

,

JOHN GILMOUR.

8th Decembe r. Lieutenant-Colonel and Hono r

is appointed to the Honorary Colonelcy

the corps. Captain and Honorary Major J ohn

ilmour i s to be Lieutenant-Colonel .” —Ga2 ette.

8th J anuary ,1 896 .

—We returned to Charleton,

having given up the last Six months of h is

Ist Ju ly—We went to stay with Crabb ie at

myss Hal l . Before leaving home I was runn ing

carpet sl ipped at the bottom of the stairs

d down I went a crasher ; bruised my Shoulder

ery badly,and could not put my coat on without

elp fo r two years after.

On 6 th J uly went to Wiverton for Peterborough

Show. The day after the Show we drove

Belvoir to see Mr. Scott,and found a large

Jarty at the kennels —Worcester,Wemyss

,Charl ie

Wright,J ack T rotter

,Ames

,etc. The entry was

excel lent,the last one which Gil lard bred . Sir

Gi lbert Gre enall asked us to come in to luncheon .

We went on to London,and on 14th went to Beenham

Grange,to the Warings.

1 6 th—On to Hailes to Mrs. Buchanan .

1 8th .- T o Manchester

,where we saw Arthur

,

who was at work putting up an engine ; and on to

Glithe ro e, where Charl ie Wright met us with his

oach and took us to Bolton Hal l .T uesday morn ing ,

2 o th —We went to exercise

with the hounds. T om Mo rgan was in charge. After

:hat drove a team down to post-o ffice for the letters

before breakfast . Out with hounds again in theVOL. 11. 19


afternoon . A lgernon Legard and his wife,Yerburgh

and Heneage of 1 2 th Lancers came. M i ss Wrightvery pretty

,and whistled charmingly.

On the 2 l st we were due at Perth,for :

the H igh

land Society’s Show

,to stay with M i ss Rol lo

,at

Rodney Lodge. Started from Bolton,Wright driving

the coach,with Mrs. Legard and I sobe l , and I driving

the brake,with Mrs. Wright on the box. Wright

had a plan of a loop of chain over the rol ler bolt

instead of a leather trace. Going down hil l the loop

of chain j olted on to the spl inter bar and touched the

wheeler on the thigh . He immed iately fired a salute.

I checked him and he did no harm but I did not l ike

the look of him,and Mrs. Wright

,who is very

knowledgeable,said

,He has not done with it yet

”

.

When we were about two miles from He llifie ld,

going up hi l l,he again kicked and got his leg over

the trace . B il ly,Wright ’s head groom

,was with us

,

but they could not get the trace undone. Mrs.

Wright said,

Give me hold o f the rein s and you

get down and help them,which I did

,and at last

got the horse loose ; put one of the leaders in his

place as wheeler,and off we started with abo ut seven

minutes to catch the train‘. Lucki ly Wright was intime and delayed it a l ittle

,and we got there four

minutes after the time.

2 7 th J uly—F i fe Light Horse inspection at St.

Andrews . I rode Harry E rskine ’s grey horse.

General Chapman stayed at Alexandra Hotel . The

General is a l itt le man and he had a big horse.

His groom careful ly put it on the high part of



3 1 st. —Beaupark to tea with Lady Fanny Lambert

and Honourable Bertha , maid-of-honour.

3rd September.—! Ol ive lent us her horse Potato

We got up at 5 a m . and drove to Headfo rd . J ohn

Watson and hounds there at seven o ’

clock. He had

just run a cub to ground near a wasps’

nest. A nice

handy pack of hounds , and he is a real workman .

Lady Headford was very kind . We went in to

breakfast ; met Colonel T hynne and his n iece , Lady

Katherine . Young Headford and Lady Beatrix and

M iss Wi lson Paton were hunting on bicycles.2 2 nd— The Emperor of Russia landed at Leith

and the P rince OfWales came to Dalmeny the daybefore . General Chapman kindly gave us tickets

for the pavil ion,so we were in the front rank and

saw everything. I t rained torrents al l the time.

Robert L indsay, Scots Greys , was sent to Balmoral

to do escort , the Emperor being Honorary Colonel

of the regiment. I nn iski l l ings were at P iershill,

Green T homson in command.

5th October.— Went to Bath ; put up first n ight

at York Hotel . Got rooms at 20 Circus , N orton

T omkin ’s drawing-room floor. My shoulder was

pretty bad with rheumatism .

1 4th— Badminton Hounds at Lansdowne. I so

bel and I drove up with a pony . Wi l l Dale, huntsman .

RandolphWemyss in London hurt his knee. Back

to Bath after hunting.

2 9th— I went to Badminton . Randolph mounted

me on Swindon He hunted the hounds ; his knee

was very bad . M e t at Alderley ; returned to Bath.


'On 3 l st October left Bath and went to Sydl ing.

Rachel was with us.

2 nd N ovember.— By-day at Up ce rne Wood . I

rode Mainstay,

” the strongest horse I ever was on

he bounded about l ike a l ion . I sobel rode The

Drummer,a big grey horse .

3rd N ovemb e r.—Sydl ing opening day. Chandy

had al l the company to breakfast. He mounted me

on “N icholas

,a very n ice horse ( afterwards bought

by Sir T homas E rskine). I sobel and Dorothy

hunted on foot. We had a very good gal lop,and

to ground under a road .

4th—Melbury. At the meet we heard of George

Lane Fox’

s death . I rode “ Drummer,but not

having ridden for some time previous,three days

’

running made me so tired that I went home and

went to bed . T hey had a good run ; Dorothy and

I sobel were sent home. She was rid ing a beautiful

cob, Stranger,and she was so tired She could on ly

walk al l the way home.

9 th—B lackmore Vale ; met near Leigh. I rode

Matchmaker a four-year-old grey horse ; I sobel

rode the grey Drummer ” . All Merthyr Guest ’s

men were mounted on grey horses,and most of the

field . Spil ler, the huntsman ,not much good

,and

the other men useless. N o hol loaing al lowed , and

as there was a very bad scent we did nothing. Had

a very happy time with Chandy ; and left on 1 3th for

the cottage at Badminton .

Randolph had become partner with Worcesterin Badminton Hounds, but it was not a happy union.


Randolph said,

I have quarrel led with Worcesteral ready “What about ? ” Breeding hounds.

”

One of the first things he d id was to d ischarge old

T om Morgan and engage Wi l l Dale , who had beenwith him in the Burton country. I n cub-hunting

they had run into Hartham,Sir J ohn P oynde r

’

s

place. Randolph was gal loping down a ride blowing

his horn,hounds just runn ing into their fox. T here

was wire-netting Six feet high across the ride. Ran

dolph ’s horse ran bang into it,turned head over heels ,

and knocked him out of t ime. Wi lkinson picked

him up. When he began to come round he said,

Where is the fox ? All right,they kil led him

,

”

so they brought the brush to Show him. A clergy

came up and proposed to put him in a brougham and

take him to the Rectory . H e said,N o

,no

,you

wil l want to read the burial service over me I ’m not

dead yet,I come from F i e .

”

Rosie and Tyv ie Burn came soon after us,and

Randolph was very good and mounted al l of us. I

had two capital horses,T he Colonel and Sw in

don Tyv ie was riding rather an old stumpy horse,and going through a vil lage he asked a boy if it was

the way to Badminton “Why,i s that ’ere horse going

to be ki l led ? ” “No

,

” said Tyv ie , why ? ” “ I thought

al l the horses that went to Badminton were kil led

2 6th No vember.—Randolph sent us on to

Chipping Sodbury , where we changed horses and

drove on to see the Duke and Duchess at Stoke

Park. T he Duke was in Bristol at a meeting.

T he Duchess kind and charming. She said,We



Giants there l ived in days which have gone by ,

Hounds were they b e tte r ? o r huntsm en —we l l , we l l ;Ke e p up your standard, breed on ly for no se , s ir,

And stoutness ofcourse , fo r one c an ne ver te l l

What sport in the future may somewh ere await you,What runs w e may chro n ic l e , ride through and se e ;

But always rem em b er where ver you hunt , sir,T o lo ok fo r a Button that ’s marked w ith a B.

R. E. \V.

BADM INTON , 3oth N ovember, 1 896 .

I t is rather a curious coincidence that the three

great historic packs begin their name with a B .

Lord Henry Bentinck,who I bel ieve bred the best

pack of foxhounds that ever hunted a fox,kept the

Burton country where he bred his hounds. Bro ck les

by Rallywo od,entered 1 843 ,

by ‘Basi l isk ’ out of‘Rosebud ’

;‘Basi l isk

,

’ by Sir R. Sutton’ s ‘

Ring

wood’

out of ‘Brazi la ’

;‘Rosebud

,

’ by ‘Victor ’ out

of ‘F rol ic ’

. Wi l l Goodal l,of Belvoir

,got him

from W. Smith ,huntsman at Brocklesby

,when he

was six or seven years old . He practical ly made

the Belvoir Hounds at that time,and at one time

Goodal l took out hunting one pack of hounds al l by‘Rallywood

’

.—R. E . W.

”

3o th N o vember.—T hirteen degrees of frost.

Went back to Bath ; stayed at Pump Hotel,and

had another spel l of massage and rubbing for a

week,and again went to Badminton .

On 1 2 th December went to Wiverton .

i 4th .-Quorn Hounds

,Kinoulton . Knowles gave

me a mount on a beautiful horse. Found inCurate ’s

gorse ; had a capital run ,and lost in Holwel l vi l lage

,


where I think the fox got into some of the buildings.

I sobel rode Mary Muster’s horse.

1 6 th—The Belvoir were at Wel ford vil lage.

Hard frost and thick fog. We went on,but

Knowles did not send on a horse for me. M i ss

Musters sent on B runo for I sobel,but it was no

use. Hounds came about one O’

clock,and .went

home again . We had lunch with T ommy Burns

and his w ife at a smal l publ ic.

On the morn ing of the i 7 th there was an earth

quake. All the washing crockery rattled and woke

us. We left Wiverton,s lept at Roxburgh Hotel

,

Edinburgh,and home next day.

REMINISCENCES OF

CHAP TER X IV .

FAREWELL DINNER AT CUPAR.

INgN ovember,1 895, the fol lowing account appeared

in the F ife H erald and journal of a banquet and

presentation to Colonel Anstruther T homson on his

retiring from the command of the regiment after

thirty-five years’

service“ Colonel Gilmour occupied the chair . Among

others present were Captain the Earl of Rosslyn,

Sir Arthur Halkett,Lieutenant Sir Walter Corbet

,

Hon. George Waldegrav e Lesl ie , Lieutenant Harry

Anstruther,M . P .

,Captain Munro-Ferguson

,M .P .

The Rev . J . Burt,chaplain

,Captain and Adjutant

Waring,and Captain Crabb ie

,the new Adjutant.

Major M iddleton,Lieutenant George Prentice and

Colonel Burn acted as croupiers. Lieutenant Harry

E rskine,Surgeon-Captain Stuart Palm

,Lieutenant

M itchel and ex-Lieutenant Gil lespie were also pre

sent. Apologies were intimated from Mr. Cathcart

of P itcairlie,Mr. Bethune of B lebo

,Mr. Robert

Prentice,Sergeant-maj or Martin

,Quartermaster

T homas Swan , and Mr. Wardrop (late trumpeter).“ Mr. Haig,

whose name was received with

marked cordial ity,wrote °

‘

T hough unable to be

present this evening from unavoidable causes,I beg



t ion for him as a man and our devotion to him so

long our Colonel,and our affect ion for him as a

friend . T he Colonel in his remarks said that

they had met that night not only as inhabitants Of‘the K ingdom

,

’

but as Light Horse men ; and they

felt a pride that no poor words of h is could ever ex

press in being priv ileged to entertain as they now

did the head of an old F ife family who had so we l l

fulfi l led his part not in one l ine of duty,but in al l .

A smart officer,with experience gained in two of

the crack cavalry regiments of the service,a pro

p rie to r who early recognised that his position cal led

him to undertake duties not confined to those within

h is park wal ls,and

,above everything to them

,the

man who had devoted thirty-fiv e years of his l ife to

maintain as a credit to the service and an honour to

the county the gal lant regiment of which all there

were so proud . T hat,in a few words

,was the record

of a l ife spent not for himself alone,but a l ife giv ing

an example o f al l that was best in a Britishe r—an

example of what had made Bri tain what she is.

T he exponent of al l that was manly,straight and

honest,be it in sport

,as in every phase of gene ral

l ife,few indeed were the associations of men who

could claim as the F i fe Light Horse men could do

that n ight such a man as their Chief. I t was not,

however,his province to dwel l on Colo nel T homson

’

s

early l ife that was not the place to do more than refe r

to the long and valued services in the county affairs

performed by him. N o r need he speak to them of

their Colonel ’s name and fame as one of the greatest


Masters of Foxhounds of the century. All this

would be handed down to many generatio ns. I n

asking them to drink Colonel T homso n’s health that

n ight , and in making a presentation to him in their

name,he might

,however. in a wo rd . cal l to their

recol lection that al tho ugh the historian o f their

regiment , with becoming modesty he did not state

the fact—the fact no less existed— that had it no t

been for the active part played by Co lonel T homson

in 1 860 the F ife Light Horse never would have

existed,and. might he not most truly add ,

had it

not been for his never-ceasing devotion to its interests

ever since,the regiment

,which now stood unique

and alone at the head of the Volunteer Service of

the country,would long ago have ceased to be.

But in the case of every one present , i t was unne ces

sary to refer to the records of the regiment to feel and

recognise that the F i fe L ight Horse had had for more

than thirty years a commanding officer not in name,

but in fact. The smal lest detai l had received his co n

stant care ; in t imes of difficulty his resource had

made easy what to many other commissioned officers

would have appeared insuperable. Yes,he said again

that it was to those traits of character— al l so great,

but SO rarely to be fo und in one man— that so many

o f them were able to meet as they did that n ight,

members of the F ife Light Horse. T he knowledge

that Colo nel T homson was sti l l to maintain his con

ne ction with the regiment as its Honorary Colonel

had lessened to the members,as he thought it had

lessened to Colonel T homson himsel f,the sharpness


of past events ; and knowing their Colonel as they

did,they al l felt that that connection would be, not

as it so often was,purely an ornamental one , but

that it would mean no slackening of the deep interest

the Co lonel had taken in the fortunes of the corps,whose existence would ever be associated with his

name,and it was the earnest hope of al l that for

many years to come they might be priv i leged to

welcome in their midst that presence of which they

al l were proud . T hat night they met purely as

F i fe Light Horse men,past and present

,but it was

only fai r to say that there had been the greatest

eagerness displayed not only by loyal volunteers in

that county,but by many others

,to share in that ex

pression of regard and esteem for Colonel T homson .

He should l ike that n ight to say that none recognised

the force of that desire more than the members of

the F ife Light Horse ; but they fel t , with ,he trusted

,

no undue measure of selfishness,that hav ing for the

past thirty-five years looked upon Colonel Anstruther

T homson as their own special property,they had a

j ust right to keep him entirely to themselves that

night.

Addressing the guest of the evening,Colonel

Gilmour then said :‘Knowing

,sir

,as you do every

officer,non -commissioned officer and trooper in the

regiment , we feel you wil l accept as coming from

the heart, however imperfectly conveyed to you,our

honest thanks for al l you have done during so many

years for us as Light Horse men . But on your retire

ment from the command we feel there should be



of their intention to entertain him that n ight,he felt

hal f afraid of meeting them. But since then affairs

had taken a different turn,and he trusted they might

have a happy meeting and look o n i t in the l ight of

what the min isters cal led an induction dinner,fo r he

had again been admitted in to the regiment,and as

Colonel Gi lmour had been promoted to his place as

Lieutenant-Colonel,and they now had two Colonels

,

he thought they should get on better than ever.

T hey had paid him the greatest compl iment in

making appl ication for his appointment as Honorary

Colonel . I t was the honour which he most wished

for,and as there was no l imit as to age he hoped

that h is connection with the regiment would only

end with his l ife . He did not think that he was

getting treated with much consideration in only

getting five days’

notice before he was gazetted out

after thirty-fiv e years ’ service ; but he had met with

so much sympathy and kindness,not only from them

but from every one he had met,that it had done

much to smooth over any feel ings which he had o n

the subject. He said,on another occasion

,that the

greatest compl iment which they could pay to him

would be to maintain the regiment in the h ighest

state of efficiency,and b e trusted and believed that

they would do so. He thanked Colonel Gi lmour and

al l the officers for the wil l ing and loyal assistance

which they had always given to him. He thanked

them al l for their zeal,energy and attention ,

without

which they could never have arrived at the degree of

efficiency which they now possessed,and he begged


of them not to relax in their endeavours,but to strive

to be more efficient at every successive training.

He congratulated them on the satisfactory number

of. recruits that season. He thanked them for the

honour they had done him in inviting him to that

banquet, and now how could he thank them for that

most magnificent present ? One of his earl iest re

col lections went back to 1 824,when his father was

presented with a si lver lamp by the members of the

old F ifeshire Yeomanry when he ret ired from their

command . T hat lamp was now a valued heirloom

at Charleton,and he felt very proud that they

,many

of whom were probably the grandchildren of those

men,should have done him the honour of presenting

him with that gift. I n the year 1 86 2 the Cupar

troop presented him with a very beautiful clock,and

on the 1 1 th of last month the Forfar troop presented

him w ith that cup (pointing to a handsome si lver cupon the chairman ’s table), and now they had put the

crowning stroke on al l with that valued and valuable

gi ft. On an occasion such as this it was d ifficult to

find words to express one ’s feel ings,and he could

o n ly conclude with the simple and sincere words,he

thanked them most heart i ly.

“ Captain the Earl of Rosslyn,in proposing the

‘Past Members of the F i fe Light Horse,

’

spoke of

the pleasure it gave the younger members of the

regiment to have so many of the old veterans there ,that they might see what the younger members

were. The chairman was a new man in the colonelcy

of the Fi fe Light Horse, anxious to do his best toVOL . 11. 20


welcome the old members,so many of whom were

leading men in the county. Among these o ld '

memb e rs

they had Sir Arthur Halkett,who carried the colours

of the 42 nd at the battle of A lma. T hey had alSo the

Hon. George W’

aldegrave-Leslie

,than whom there

was no more conspicuous member of the F ife Light

Horse. Whether the subj ect was the Church,the

scavenging of the streets,or the pol lution of the

Leven,he was invariably heard of. H is presence

fi l led them all with admiration,and though age did

not bring sl imness to the figure,he had that n ight

donned the red coat of the F ife Light Horse and

coupled with it a white waistcoat. Lord Rosslyn

made humorous and compl imentary reference to

several other old members.“Sir Arthur Halkett in replying said the former

membe rs of the Fi fe Light Horse felt as they looked

on that large assembly and the famil iar red jacket of

the regiment that they were l ike the old cast troop

horses who pricked up their ears at the sound of the

trumpet and wanted to fal l into the ranks once more.

He never saw the F i fe Light Horse without

recollecting their dear old Adjutant,Abraham Crab

tree,the most dist inguished soldier and the most

upright and straightforward man that he ever met in

his l ife.“ Lieutenant H . T . Anstruther

,in a speech ful l

of sparkl ing wit and humour,proposed ‘

The Ad

j utant,Captain Waring

,

’ whom he fel icitously chaffed

for wearing ‘the far-famed unmentionables of Prince

A lbert ’s Own Hussars ’ .



CHAPTER XV .

JUBILEE 1 897 .

2 8th May.—VVent to London . Charl ie lent

his room in Hyde Park Barracks,and I sobe l went

to stay with her sister B lanche E l l iot in Smith

Square , Westminster.2 9th

— Me t the Oake leys in Hyde Park Man

sions,and they asked us to go on their coach to the

meet of the Four-in-Hand Club. I t was very wet,

so we did not go on to Ranelagh .

3 Ist.-Caledonian Hunt dinner at Savoy Hotel.

J ubi lee leoe’

e . I went to it with my two Majors.

When we were presented the Prince shook hands

w i th me,looked up at Charl ie and Bi l l

,and said

,

Wonderful !Ist June —The tournament at I sl ington . 3rd

Dragoon Guards ; ride very good and very good

places. I sobel and B lanche came to me there.

3rd—Went to House of Commons with I sobe l

and Mabel Yeatherd. Met Harry and Ceci l An

struther, who offered us tickets for House of Lords’

stand at T rafalgar Square,and Harry offered us

tickets for House of Commons at WestminsterB ridge. We accepted for the Lords. Me t Muntz ,Balcarres and Co .

,and had tea on the terrace.


4th.-Bil l was quartered at Windsor

,and had a

house called The Gables”

. Rosamond Anstruther

was staying with them. We wen t to luncheo n

there and then went to the playing fields,and

afterwards to the Brocas to see the boats go up.

We dined at the barracks after,and met T ul l i

hardine,Vaughan Lee and Drage

,the veterinary

surgeon .

5th—We went down to Guildford to stay with

the Gores .

8th.—We went to Aldershot

,and had luncheon

with Sainty Oswald,and saw stables

,baggage

,

waggons and a maxim gun .

14th.—VVent to London . Me t wife at Reading

,

and went on to Beenham,to the Warings.

1 5th .

—Breezy,but warm . We drove to Reading

with Captain Waring for Ascot. Delightful day.

Had luncheon in 2 nd Life Guards ’ tent ; Charl ie

was not there. Major Longfie ld looked after us.We met Chandy Pole

,and sat on the Oake leys

coach . Saw“ Galtee More win . H e had been

the Derby winner too. Lord Coventry kindly sent

us tickets for enclosure.

1 6th—Sale of Beenham yearl ings. The train

was altered half an hour later to suit the Prince of

Wales,so when the sale commenced hard ly any of

the probable buyers had arrived ; consequently the

horses were sold for less than their value .

1 7 th .—Cup day at Ascot . Mrs. Waring went

with us. We sat on the 2 nd Life Guards’

coach to

see the Royal procession . Charl ie,Captain Ames


and Captain Reggie Peel,and C aptain Scobell

,

Scots Greys,came to talk to us , and Robin

Lindsay . Persimmon”

won .

l gth .—Returned to London .

2 1 st —Went down to lunch at Hounslow with

the Greys,and saw the camp on Hounslow Heath .

Dined at mess with T rotter,the Adjutant , Entwhistle,

the Quartermaster,who was doing duty for orderly

officer at Hyde Park Barrack s .

2 2 nd— J ubilee day . Up at half-past Six got cab

and paid double fare to Smith’

s Square. Started

with I sobel to walk ; got al l right to the Horse

Guards ; there the crowd was dense and very diffi

cul t to get through . I espied an authority on

horseback,covered with Si lver lace

,and recognised

Charles Howard in command of pol ice. He asked

me where we wanted to go. N ational Gal lery,

”

said I . He said,

“T hat is not very easy ”

. A

moment after he said,I can help you

”

. He cal led a

mounted pol iceman,and said

,T ake this gentleman

to the National Gal lery”

. The pol iceman walked on

and we trotted after him up to the gate of our stand.

I t was a capital place,for we could see al l the way

up Pal l Mal l . T he Lords ’ stand was certain ly not

fi l led with lords ; ch iefly ,I th ink

,with clerks

,etc

and ladies ’ maids. E xcept Lord Lindsay,Kilconquhar

and wife,and Captain Ker. T he fi rst and most im

posing were Oswald Ames and four Life Guardsmen,

and Lord Roberts riding by himself on a beautiful

white horse. I t was a grand sight . We had appl ied

for permission for a detachment of F i fe and Forfar


REMINISCENCES OF

ing Atte-Bower, near Romford. A tremen

ailstorm had destroyed al l the crops and broken

windows. We saw the Storm , but it d id not

within two miles of us. N ext day we rode

0 see Albyns,Sir Wi l l iam Abdy

’

s place,a

'

ul old E l izabe than house. All the diamond

windows were broken,as if bo ys had thrown

and the gutters were ful l of ice—frozen hail

h.—Went to Weald Hal l

,The T owers ; a

JIplace and a beautiful lady.

h.-I went up to London , and went with

: to Lady Susan Melv il le’

s,Belgrave Square

,

Clem Campbel l,who had just arrived from

She was looking so wel l . On coming

ai rs—the stairs were very broad and the‘

5 very low—my foot sl ipped . I caught hold

ianisters and my feet flew up in the air. I

ight over the banister, and landed on my

11 the marble floor. I held on ti l l I nearly

the floor,and made my fingers bleed

‘

on

lister ; but I was not hurt. Charl ie rushed

and seized me by my rheumatic shoulder to

up,which hurt much more than the fal l . I

the lad ies a good deal,but I was none the

F i fe Light Horse assembled for dri l l at

se . Mr. M i l lar most kindly lent me Rossie

for the week,a charming old place. He

at the station on arrival,and said

,

“ I have

1 ton of coals and a barrel of paraffin make

COL . ANSTRUTHER T HOMSON 3 1 3

use of anything you require out of the garden We

invited Z aida and Rosamond Anstruther to stay with

us. Pat Carnegy was very bad with a carbuncle on

the back of his neck ; but , as usual , would not Shirk

his duty,and did everything as usual .

2 nd August—My nephew ,Arthur Gore

,and I

went to Perth and bought “ Col l ier”

for 20. A

wonderful bargain . J ohn Gilmour gave a great

party and bal l at Montrave . He employed M r.

Lowney to put up a magnificent bal l-room,and he

had a lot of bachelors under canvas,under command

ofWi l l E rskine.

7 th J anuary 1 898.—Scots Greys ’ Bal l in Edin

burgh.

February 9th.—Arrived at Lichfie ld with our

horses , to stay at White Hal l with the Yeatherds.

l o th —Rode up to barracks with M rs. Yeathe rd.

The King’s Own ” quartered there .

1 1 th—South Stafford Hounds . Rode to the

meet with Maj or and M rs. Yeatherd Frank

Foster,fie ld-master

,very keen chap

,on a mare with

very thick legs. Huntsman,a long useful chap.

Went home as soon as they found,for we wanted

to go to Atherstone next day. Got into train to

Polesworth station with Edward Burke ; met Kel ly

and Mrs. Harry T ownshead,J ohn A lken

,etc.

Hounds looked wel l ; Kinch seemed a handy man.

Bob Co teswo rth,first whip ; he had just got hunts

man’

s place,Vale of White Horse

,Lord Bathurst

’

s.

Sunday.—Lichfie ld Cathedral . Went to lunch

at F rank Foster ’s. Kennels ; useful and workmanl ike.


T uesday— South Staffordshire , Bassets Pole.

Lots of people,and a hundred bicycles on the side

of the road . Sam Pole out. The keeper there

came from . Haddington,and came and talked to me

about J ohn Atkinson and old friends. Going through

a gate got a wipe on the face with a branch ; cut my

eye and bled l ike blazes.

Wednesday,l 6th.

—Atherstone Hounds,Cricket

’

s

Inn. J ohn Alken met us in T amworth,and drove

us on . Hunted on wheels and went to luncheon with

him at Bonehill.

l gth—South Stafford. Point-to-po int races.

Went in a ’bus with Yeathe rds,Colonel Prior

,

Major Crofton . A most rotten course with arti

ficial fences. Prior won the heavy weights ’ race,

and Morris the l ight weights’

. I n the evening they

had a hunt dinner in the barracks ; Colonel P rior in

the chair. Sir Charles Foster attended ,but had not

got a red coat. Frank shirked it,which was mean

of him. T he regiment were very n ice fel lows. I t

was a cap ital party, and they gave me a tremendous

reception,view-hol loaing and cheering. [I n Africa

very many of them were kil led,among them Major

Yeathe rd. Colonel Prior had just got a command,

was taken il l and died before he ought to have gone

out ]On Sunday evening I was coming downstairs

with heavy scrap-books and a candle with a glass

shade ; my foot sl ipped and down I went ; bashed

my head against the wal l and cut a gash in it. Had

to go to the do cto rl

next day to get it patched up.



Firr was there. Rode home with T om F irr and had

tea with him at the kennels . He wanted to lend

I sobel h is fur coat. He said it had been given to

him by a lady , but he did not put it on al though he

felt sure if he came to the meet without i t “ the first

woman or man he would see would be her lady

ship. And sure enough it was her ladyship. And

she said ,

‘Why haven’

t you got your coat on,

T om ? ’ I said,

‘It

’

S not cold enough,my lady ’

.

She said i t was quite cold enough . So next t ime

I put it on,and I never fel t so ashamed of my

se lf in my l ife as I d id that day r iding through

the vi l lage. Paget k indly sent us his carriage to

meet us at Quorn .

On 3o th put horses in train at Kegworth to

Syston ,and rode on to Melton Steeplechase. Went

to Harborough Arms at Melton . The worst inn I

ever was in ; mutton chops hard as brickbats ; we

were obl iged to eat eggs for dinner. N ext day,

train to B rine Baths Nantwich .

Ist April— Chesh ire Hounds , P o o llane Smithy ;old Reggy Corbet hunting them a beautiful pack of

hounds. Reggy a grand horseman , but very deaf.

Lots of foxes,and ran about al l day. I sobel drove

to meet with a white hirel ing . Me t T om Boughey

and Lady and Major Rivers Buckley , Lady Wynn ,

etc.

4th—Hai les. Put my horse in train to Drayton

and rode on to meet N orth Staffordshire Hounds.

M e t Major Hard ing o n the road,who said ,

“ You

can meet hounds much nearer at Hawkstone I


said,T hat is to-morrow ,

so he went on with me .

I t Was an awful long way , and we were late and got

to hounds at T rentham . Duke was hunting them,

but we never found a fox. I came home early,as

I wanted my horse next day.

sth—Hawkstone . Frank H i l l greeted us cordi

al ly at the door. Presently Dick Yeo appeared with

the bounds . He was whipper-in to Mr. T relawny,Dartmoor

,and I sent him up as second whip to

Lord Yarborough in 1 87 2 . He introduced me to

the master,Mr. Heywood Lonsdale. Hawkstone is

a beautiful place al l going to ruin wonderful rhodo

dendrons on a sort of terrace on the rocks . Plenty

of foxes ; and Dick Yeo as wi ld as a hawk ! Stayed

at Hai les on Good Fr iday,and home next day.

2 4th May.-Lord Leven

,H igh Commissioner .

Scots Greys had a capital tournament—vault ing and

j umping excel lent Went to lunch with Mrs.

Alexander ; Colonel absent,his brother

,Lord

Caledon,having died .

The Greys’

musical ride came over toWindygate sAgricultural Show at Dunnikier ; the ride was very

good , and the tent pegging ; heads and posts below

average.

J ohn F lockhart died on 2 9th December,1 898.

George Fortune was appointed his successor as

factor , and took possession of the house at Rose

bank , with his sister to keep house for him.

6th March,1 899 .

- Charles Macpherson asked

us to go to St . Boswel ls as his guests to have a hunt

with the Duke of Buccleuch ’

s Hounds. M r. Con

3 18 REM 1N 1SCENCES OF

acher,N orth British Railway

,al lowed our horses

to go through by fast train,so we al l arrived

at three o ’clock,and found Mac and his wife just

come in from hunting. Shore,the huntsman

,was

on Sick l ist , having had a fal l and concussion of the

brain . I went to have a chat with him. Whilethere the hounds came home

,and Lord Henry Scott

came to report to him the day ’s sport. T hey had

ki l led a fox. George Summers was hunting the

hounds. Lord Henry took me round the stable of

the Duke’

s horses.

N ext day we met at Mertoun ; found in a

beautiful gorse cover. Hounds ran in the fields

paral lel to the road for some distance,then crossed

,

but the populace in the road drove them too far over

the l ine. Got the l ine again,but d id no good .

Found again in another nice gorse and ran into

Floores, and hung about ‘ there ; then went to N ew

ton Don,a beautiful place

,but no fox

,and Stichel ,

and then we went home. Little scent ; a very nice

field and lots of pleasant people— Charlie Balfour,

Scott-Plumer , Scott of Sinton , etc.

A good pack of hounds (dogs) George Summers

first whip , acting as huntsman,a nice fel low and

good horseman . Most of the field rode horses with

bang tai ls,and they cal led them thoroughbred ! The

country very nice ; a. fair lot of grass, no wire , and

the hedges beautiful ly kept.

8th—Point-to-point races. M indrum M i l l.

Went in a carriage with wife,Kitty Robertson

and Aleck Gillespie. Me t Lady Orr-Ewing and



married to Captain Murray—T hre ip land,Grenadier

Guards]On Monday hounds met at the kennels. T hey

found in a gorse on a hi l l on George Ballingall’

s

farm,and ran l ike blazes. We d id not get a good

start,and fol lowed a gentleman in grey and nicked

in with them again . T hey checked soon after ;found again in a big wood with awful rides

,and ran

down to the river and then back again nearly to the

kennels.

T uesday—We went to Duns. Cocky had a

bad sore back,so was incapacitated .

Wednesday—The Berwickshire Hounds at

P istol plantation . I sobel got a hirel ing,a l ittle

thoroughbred chestnut mare,

‘

v e ry ragged coat and

awful string halt,but could gal lop and jump. Litt le

scent,found a brace

,went away

,but came back to

the wood . Lord Haddington and Lord Hen ry Scott

came to breakfast at the hotel at Duns. Colonel

Gough, 9th Lancers

,got a cropper over a rail.

Found in a beautiful gorse ofSir J ames M i l lar’

s ; ran up

to rai l and back to the gorse. Hounds went away

again ; had a good gal lop and ki l led a fox. I sobe l

was so tired that we went home. The mare pul led

violently and could not stand sti l l for a moment.

Thursday—Went to Edrom ; saw tomb of the

Brymersl and went over the old house ; very

quaint and interest ing. Mr. Simpson ,the minister,

a capital man . Back to tea at Swan I nn and into

Edinburgh. Slept at our clubs. Berwicksh ire

My great-grandmother was Rache l Brymer ofEdrom.


Hunt very smart and good horses ; middl ing pack

of hounds ; huntsman good keen chap , but don’t

take enough not ice of his hounds ; second whip,

Geo rge Clarke,from Mrs. Cheap e

’

s beagles.

I n 1 89 7 my son Arthur went to Austral ia. After

staying there about a fortn ight he sai led to N ew

Z ealand . H e there met the son-in-law of Captain

Gardner of B irchwood (Maj or Pat Carnegy’

s

cousin). He went on to B irchwood,twelve miles

from a post-office ,a lovely place surrounded with

mountains. He expected to remain two or three

days,but stayed on a month

,and wrote to me from

there on 7 th May,1 898

I had a ripping time. Captain Gardner reminds

me much of Maj or Pat . He has named one of hi s

properties Lour,and christened his son Carnegy.

Mrs. G . i s absolutely kind and ful l of fun . T hree

boys Carnegy,the eldest

,is married and l ives three

miles off. He manages the stat ion ; a big j ob , as

they have Romney sheep. T he second boy,

Struan,i s eighteen and is learning the business. H e

works as a Shepherd at the ordinary wage.

Shepherding h ere doesn ’ t mean sitt ing by a

brook with a flute in one hand and a crook in the

other , but riding al l day long , driving seven or eight

hundred sheep along a road to market , or cl imbing

up hi l l , leading your horse and shouting to your

col l ie dogs,of which every man has two

,a ‘huntaway

and a ‘ringer ’

. The first is trained to drive them

from you,the second to head them and drive them

VOL . 11. 2 1


back to you. The system works beautiful ly. I went

out ‘mustering one day,which consisted in fourteen

men on horses and as many good dogs as they could

get going out at 4 a m . and beating the hi l ls for

sheep. We worked ti l l three in the afternoon and

gathered about from that one run . We then

drafted and dipped them. T hey were Short-handed ,

so I worked l ike a nigger. We dipped a day

not bad considering the size,weight and ‘dourness

of the so -cal led gentle sheep.

“T hey do everything themselves. Every man

is his own groom. I had an Arab given me for the

time I was there,and I d idn ’t have to ask leave

every time I wanted a r ide. Besides clean ing the

stables I took over the dairy and made the butter,

and boasted in the Skil l Mrs. Drumdrum had insti l led

into me. I d ipped the sheep,helped to thresh

,rode

twelve miles for the letters in the rain,mended the

si lver kettle,measured the house

,tested the water

wheel with a view to l ighting it electrical ly (i t’s

under consideration), and I’ve the promise of the job

I fed the calf n ight and morning,constructed a

manger,drank quantit ies of their best brown sherry ,

shot and hunted rabbits with my Arab and a mongrel

dog. V\’

e went three picnics to the bush , river,sta

’

actite caves,etc. We rode to two

,and took

four-in-hand to the third . Walked in the moonl ight,

got up at 6 a m . regular,helped to carry sacks of

oats,played euchre and crib

,and in the even ings

Captain G . used to read out Jorro cks to us. A free,happy

,busy l ife

,fun every moment of it;



temptingly barbaric. I n fact,they clubbed and ate

three people there four years ago !

One i s right out of the world in these islands

of coral and cocoanut palms,and I haven ’t had a

letter for eight weeks— in fact,they are al l waiting

for me in Auckland,N . Z . So I know no news . I

j ust managed to catch the mai l which left soon after

I arrived here,and scribbled offa short letter to the

laird tel l ing him a brief account of recent events.

T hat is,how one dark evening I fel l ten feet

over a precipice which skirted the road,and landed

with my head on a rock.

‘A narrow squeak

,

’

the

medico said . However,though I smashed my skul l

,

‘fractured it ’

(gruesome-sounding name), I d id notfeel much the worse

,and as I was at the time

l iteral ly invaluable in Reynolds’

office,a report having

to be sent in,the experiments for which I had taken

,

etc .,I went into harness three days after and worked

on fo r a fortn ight. By which time the urgency for

work was over,and the expediency of a rest mani

9

fest.

I could not ask Reynolds to give me an in

definite hol iday,especial ly as he needed some one

capable of running the place when he was away,so

I told him how I felt and resigned.

“ Enough of dul l facts ; now for fanciful ones.

I’

ve just got back from a trip to Sav ii,an island

some thirty miles off— I and a chap cal led Peacock,

whom I made friends with on the boat coming here

from F ij i. We hired an Engl ish-speaking native

and a boat with a sai l and three men,taking calico

,


prints and looking-glasses as presents. We travelled

about and were entertained in lordly style.“T hey kil led pigs for us , which they roasted

whole by inserting hot stones into their ‘ inwards,

’

and held high feastings. We slept in native huts .

T hey showed us a dance which the girls d id sitting

tailor fashion,waving their arms ; very graceful .

“ I raised a frenzy by dancing a H ighland fl ing

and sco ttische which ended (unexpectedly) with a

heavy thud on the floor. N atives are very hand

some,not a bit African nigger type .

“One curious and pleasant custom is to lay one

’

s

head in the lap of a princess and be massaged— a

high honour. Pol itics very interesting here at

present,as the king is dead and five chiefs aspire to

reign . T hey have meetings every other day,at

which they eat and talk a lot,to elect a king. I

know Mataafa,the probable one

,quite wel l .”

I n May,1 90 1 , the Royal Buckhounds were

abol ished . The King gave seventeen couple toM r. Seymour

,Master of the West N orfolk Hounds.

The remainder were sent to Lord Chesham at

J ohannesburg. N o competent person was sent out

in charge of them and no one knew their names.

T hey had better have stayed at home ! Frank

Goodal l having lost his place as Royal huntsman,

the K ing presented him with and he was

appointed huntsman to the Berks and Bucks Farmers ’

Staghounds,which hunt the country that belonged

to the Royal Buckhounds.


CHAP TER XV I.

WILL SHORE AND THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH'

S HOUNDS.

I SENT Shore a copy of the F ife newspaper with

my biography. He answered

“THE KENNEL S,ST . Bo swELLs , N .B . ,

“20th April, 1 899.

I beg to thank you for sending me a

copy of the H erald with the very interesting article

to many,and more so to many who have known the

subj ect of it.

My recol lection of it,although very young

(fifteen), runs back to 1 847 , when you came to

Ramsay of Barnton ’

s to look at a chestnut horse,

which I think you bought. And the next t ime

I had the chance was at Drumdrill,shortly after my

entering M r. Balfour’

s service T his was in stir

ring the roe-deer there with some hounds,after the

hunting season was over,and just before entering to

the Atherstone the second time.

“ I may be wrong , but I have often heard when

at Balb irnie that it was at the Sbelfi ie cover that the‘blooding ’ of Mr. Whyte-Melvil le and Colonel

T homson happened . But that does not matter

now.


REM IN ISCENCES OF

ruary,1 870. Wi l l iamson ’s remarks on men and

gs would themselves fi l l a book.

”

[ he present Duke of Buccleuch sent me the

wing anecdotes

DALKEITH HOUSE , DALKEITH.

Se pt , 1 900.

William Williamson , or Old Will.‘He was hunting in East Lothian

,and the

lCIS got away from every one but the second whip .

liamson came up to the second whip who was

the hounds in Binning Wood,and was hol loa

to the hounds. Wi l l iamson was furious,and

up to him,and in a confidential whisper

,

ding his teeth,said

,Hand your tongue

,man

,and

a let al l the world ken that daft J immy is in

Ting Wood ! ’

‘

Old Wi l l bought some hay near Dalkeith,and

ted the farmer to cart it to the kennels at St .

wel ls . The farmer said he would do so at 2d. a

Wi l l said he would on ly give 15d. a stone.

r bargaining for some time,Wi l l said he would

the di fference and give 1 13—d , which the farmer

ed to in order to have a joke against Wi l l,and

the farmers in Dalkeith market. I heard the

and asked Wi l l i f it was true. He said ,

fe ctly true, and I saved his Grace 7 3 . 1 1d. by it“

He hunted one day with the Berwickshire

1 David Robertson was master ; I think Morgan

hun tsman. Wi l l iamson said there was a whip:I

‘Leicestershire J oe,

’ who was standing on an


eminence crying ‘Coup,go long

’

.

‘He might as

wel l have been Singing “ Maggie Lauder

Wi l l iamson did not l ike keepers,and said

,

‘ I

canna abide they game-keeping folk ; they are al l

rogues and l iars. But the worst of al l is a H igh

land game-keeper ; you may as soon think to re

conci le the dei l w i’ redemption as a H ighlander w i’ a

fox.

’

Wi l l iamson used to buy spoil t p ieces, which heused to give away to farmers ’ wives and others. He

promised a new gown to Mrs. Ke rp ,whose husband ,

Bob Kerp ,was keeper to Lord Lothian

,as he said

she never complained of the foxes taking her hens .

She said ,‘Foxes never take my hens

’

. T he gown

arrived,and the next time the hounds were at

Mountev io t she thanked him for it. He said,

‘You

never complain of foxes taking your hens’

. She

repl ied,

‘ I d inna keep hens ! ’ So Old Wi l l d id notalways have the best of it

,as he rode away with a

grunt.

N imrod on his northern tour tel ls the fol low

ing stories

Wi l l iamson can blow up a bit now and then .

On his hounds coming to a check on the Great

N orth Road,he found a horseman in the middle of

the Park.

‘What the hel l brings you here ? ’ roared

Wi l l iamson,and found he was addressing a com

me rcial travel ler on his j ourney from London .

“Having kil led his fox on a turnpike road

,he


saw a farmer come sai l ing down a large field of

wheat. "Ware wheat ! ’ roared Wi l l iamson ; ‘what

the dev i l do you mean,man

,riding over the wheat

‘Why, I was thinking.

’ ‘T hinking ! what

’s the use

of thinking - you should reflect.’

But the wheat is

my own .

’ ‘

So much the worse,there ’s the force of

example "

One day he addressed his fr iend,M r. Cosser of

Dunse,Hold hard

,Mr. Cosser

,hold hard

,I tel l you.

What the devil are you about,driving the hounds

before you ? The older you get,the bigger fool you

get.'

Wi l l iamson got a boy from the racing stable

with very big ears,a red head and very red face.

The other boys had n icknamed him ‘Frosty ’

. The

fi rst day he appeared with a hunting-cap W’

i l l said,

‘T uck in your lugs

,Frosty

,tuck in your lugs ; what

wil l his Grace say ? ’

(lugs ears).“ J ock Hutcheson

,his whipper-in

,was a very

clever fel low,but by no means sober. Will said of

him,

‘T alk of whippers-in doing what they

’re bid,J ock

anticipates every thocht ’

; and then ,referring to his

weakness,he said

,I t

’

s no just his ain faut ; it’

s they

birkies w i’ bottles ’

(mean ing young swel l s with

pocket-flask s).“One day on going to exercise he had a new silk

lash on his whip. I n passing a cart he fl ipped at the

horse to make it get out of the way,and the lash

flew off his whip. After looking for it in vain , he

said,

‘Weel,weel a fule l ike me would break the

Bank of England



Yester and drove on to Garvald. I n driv ing through

the V i l lage M rs. T homson said ,T hat is the house I

should l ike to l ive in . I t was the F ree K i rk manse.

A few days after Dr. Cave rhill wrote saying that he

could get the manse. We went over again , saw Mr.

Beattie,a charming Old gentleman , and settled to

take his house for £ 2 5.

Colonel Gilmour made a contract for building

temporary stables for F i fe L ight Horse,and had

many tons of t imber already on the ground . Much

to our aston ishment,we heard that the whole con

cern was given up . Mr. Beattie had taken rooms

for himself at Crieff Hydropathic , and I had to pay

£ 1 5 to cancel my bargain with him Gilmour had to

pay his contractor £60.

2 7 th.—F rom Beenham we went to London for a

few days,and went to a cricket match at Lord

’

s with

Amy Fergusson ; and ion Sunday went to luncheon

with (Henry) Lord Loch ,the last t ime I ever saw

him .

3rd J uly— From London we went to Priory H i l l ,St . N eo ts

,for Peterborough Hound Show. M r. and

Mrs. Rowley (she is Walter Corbet’

s sister).

Capital party,C . Wickstead and his wife and Prior.

F i rst day,horse show ; second ,

hound Show . Beau

fort got most prizes . Austen Mackenzie,one of the

judges , bred the prize dog.

We intended to go on to Edinburgh by night

train,and did not know what to do after the Show

was over. Merthyr Guest said,My sister married

Canon Alderson go and dine with them,

” and he


in troduced us to Mrs. Alderson . I found that the

canon had been at Holdenby when I was at Br ix

worth,50 we had many mutual friends, and had a most

pleasant evening. T hei r house is in the Cathedral

close. T hey sat up with us ti l l twelve o’

clock , when

we went to the station . Got to Edinburgh next

morn ing .

I sobel went _to the Lad ies

’

Club ; I went to Dr .

Caverhill. He was away himself,but his Sister-in

law gave me breakfast . Off we went to H ighland

Agricultural Show. T he Prince of Wales was therefrom Dalkei th . T he fi rst person we met was the

Rev . M r. Gil lespie,who took us to see Professor

Ewart’

s half-bred zebras ; most beautiful an imals ,but I don ’ t know what use they wil l ever be.

We had capital p laces at the show. I had written

to the secretary some time before,and we were next

to Sir Arthur and Lady Halkett . T he Show was

grand . All the finest cattle in Scotland in the ring

at once . After the Show there was no chance of

getting a cab,and the showyard was about three

miles from the town . We went wandering on , very

hot and tired,and saw a gentleman ’ s brougham set

some one down at a house . We asked the coachman

if he was going back to Edinburgh,and he most

kindly gave us a lift ; but he would not tel l us whose

carriage it was.

2 4th— I nspection at St. Andrews. GeneralChapman ; Moulton-Barret

,aide-de-camp . Marched

past in field . Went to sands,rode “ Coll ier

,

” and

left al l the spectators behind.


1 9th— I went with Dawson,the factor

,to

Carn tyne . Stepping over a l itt le d itch , i t being very

slippery,I sl ipped back

,nearly up to my knee in mud

I could not pull my foot out again,so I tumbled down

,

wet al l my side and my arm up to the elbow. I went

into Beardmore’

s and got his ambulance man to scrape

me and washed my hands . But I had to get back to

Edinburgh,so I went to Queen Street station ,

got

into a carriage and got the guard to lock the door.

I then took off my trousers and hung them out of the

window ; took a newspaper and put it inside ’

my

drawers. Luckily,I had a pair of shoes and stock

ings in my l ittle bag . On getting to Edinburgh

I bought a pair of drawers ; and got some tea at the

N ew Club and went to bed til l my things were dry .

A berdeen H ospital Saturday F und— It was the

practice at Aberdeen to hold sports,the proceeds to

be given to the funds of the hospital . T his year the

Provost had got permission for a detachment of the

N ew South Wales Lancers to attend,a squadron of

this regiment having been quartered at A ldershot for

s ix months for cavalry instruction . Veterinary

Lieutenant Young of F ife L ight Horse,who is also

veterinary professor of the col lege, go t permission

for a squad of F ife Light Horse to attend. Un

fortunately it was on i l th and 1 2 th August,when

every Scotsman wished to shoot grouse . T he Swan

trophy was competed for in Edinburgh . F ife won .

Forfar did not do so wel l as usual , so their Major

would not al low them to compete at Aberdeen.

We went to Aberdeen and put up at the Imperial



3rd June —Went to Bath, Smith

’s lodgings, St.

J ames’

s Square ; very comfortable ; nice people ;awful ly hot.

7 th .—Went to London for M i l itary T ournament ;

d ined at Rutland House,and back to Bath . Lunched

with Charl ie at Regent ’s Park Barracks .

1 7 th—Had lunch with Clutterbuck at Combe

Royal , and went to see Bath Harriers.

2 3rd—Went to Badminton with Clutterbuck to

see hounds ; lunch at Portcul l is . Duke had gone to

London .

On 2 5th went to Beenham. On arriving at

A ldermaston there was a gentleman’

s omnibus at the

station. The porter put our luggage on the top, in

we jumped and drove off,passed the turn of the road

that goes to Beenham,asked the coachman where he

was going,and he said to Captain Darby Griffi th ’s.

We said we wanted to go to Beenham. Lucki ly i t

was not far,so he took us to Waring ’s house. I

gave the coachman my card,and told him to

tel l Captain Darby Griffith,who was an old

friend .

2 oth—Royal Review took place at Aldershot.

Waring would not go,but he lent us his brougham to

drive in to Reading. The Carabineers were quartered

there. We went to lunch with Major Sprot. After

lunch Mrs. Sprot took us to the review, and we sat

on the Carabineers ’ coach and had capital places.

Colonel Calvert,M .F .H . (Crawley and Horsham),

was in the next carriage. After the review we had

to walk right across the ground to get to Sp ro t’

s

How long wil l i t take to get to the station“ E ight minutes

,he said . So off we started ; no

time for refreshments. One of Colonel Sp ro t’

s l i ttle

girls, Mabel , ran out and gave us a handful of bananas.

We met Hargreaves,late 1 3th Hussars , and his wife

in the train . Got to Reading,and to Beenham


CHAP TER XVII.

FIFE LIGHT HORSE EMBARKED IN THE CYMRIC.

2 3rd J anuary, 1 900.—Arrived Brine Baths

,Nant

wich . Very good hotel ; nice people and very comfortab le room ; excel lent stabling ; very reasonable.

Curtis,the head man

,very knowledgeable came from

N orthampton . T ook two horses with us,

“ Col l ier

and Cocky ”

.

2 4th—I sobel went to London to attend Lord

Balcarres’ wedding. Returned P .M .

2 5th—N orth Cheshire Hounds at Calveley. I

rode Col l ier ” to the meet. A large field . Me t

M r. Brocklehurst. Found d irectly and I went home.

T hey had a cl ipping run and ran into N orth Stafford

shire country .

2 6th.— Sound Heath , South Cheshire ; young

Reggie Corbet,huntsman ; A l fred Earp

,first whip ;

T om M cBride,second . Beautiful hounds ; Reggie

very nice with them. Duchess of Sutherland out.

Storm of rain and snow going home.

2 8th—I showed I sobel and Rachel Nantwich

Church , and they lunched with Kitty Corbet at

Hankelow afterwards.

3o th.—Brind ley Ley

, South Cheshire. We met



wick,M i l l s

,Hazelhurst

,Rokeby , Spencer, Goodman

and many others out . Found at N aseby cover,ran

to Kilby and lost him ; found on Owthorpe H i l l s and

ran to ground near Marston . Found again at Al

thorpe T horns but we went home with Lord Spencer

and Mrs. Dawkins.

24th.-Drove hirel ing to N orthampton . Saw

Sanders,Britton

,etc .

,and lunchcd at cafe, very

clean and nice.

2 5th .~—Guilsborough Church and went to lunch

with Landon at Creaton,and tea with Legards at

Cottesbrooke .

a7 th—We went to Liverpool

,N orth West

Stat ion Hotel,to look at the Cymric. The F ife

Light Horse arrived and embarked on her.

2 8th .

—VVe met Burton and the horses at Canada

Dock station,and went on board the Cymr ic with

them at eight o’

clock. M e t Walter Long and Lady

Doreen at breakfast . T hey had received a telegram

from their boy in the Scots Greys,who had been

wounded and was going on wel l . Remained on

board . Pat Carnegy,Gilmour and M itchel l were

there. The Cym r ic is a beaut iful ship ; Colonel

M el ford was in command . Me t Colonel Challoner

(W. Long’s brother) and had a chat with Lumsden

,

Pul ler,Brown

,J ohnny Scott

,Dr. Dewar

,Gardyne ,

etc. T hey all looked very wel l. T hey

sailed that night. N ext morning Gilmour wired to

them,Ladysmith rel ieved ”

. We left Liverpool at

two o’clock,and got to Rugby ; got a fly and drove

to H i l lmorton to George Fenwick ’s.


T hursday,

2 9th—Warwickshire. Hounds at

Long I tchington . George Fenwick drove us there.

He lent me his pony ,a beauty , and J ohn Darby

mounted I sobel on Mrs. Fenwick’

s old grey horse.

Hounds looked very wel l,and J ack Brown

,a useful

huntsman,with a good strong voice. Found in

I tchington Holt ; most infernal r ides ; ran a l itt le bit

and lost ; l itt le scent ; drew again blank. Hounds

then drew strips about B irdingbury,and then went

on to U fton Wood . George would not go on and

we found M iss Victoria Davidson standing at the

gate,so went in to luncheon

,and stayed there al l the

afternoon. Cold enough driving home. Fe nw ick’

s

house very comfortable ; Kitty and Dol ly both

there.

2 nd March— Pytchley,Long Buckby . George

drove us and Mrs. Fenwick on ; the girls went with

J ohn Darby . Me t M r. J eyes,formerly of B rixworth

,

Clarke, Simpson

,Gees

,etc.

,other old friends.

Found in Vande rp lank ; very l ittle scent . Ran up

to West Haddon and ki l led in the garden next

house to Owen Wal l is ’ . Found again and ran to

Ashby St . Ledgers , where they kil l ed a fresh fox .

M e t J ack Stracey. T hey found again in cover ,near East Haddon. A fat mil ler was running about

looking for a runaway waggon. We met a sports

man driving it back and another leading his horse.

Guilsborough Church . A lbert Pel l and his niece

came to lunch.

5th—The Pytchley

,Chapel Brampton . Rode

on to Harry Sanders and saw Mrs . Sanders , then


on to the meet ; lots of people. Spencer in a red

coat,J ohn Haig

,etc. Found in Sanders

’ gorse ;ran past Brampton . Going through a gap my

horse jumped a heap of rai ls on the ground and

I tumbled off. Ran to Harleston Heath,and

round and round. Found at Holdenby ; ran to East

Haddon back to Sp raton .

6 th.—Drove hirel ing with T yv ie . Lunch with

Mr. Markham,then into N orthampton

,and tea at

Pitsford with Lloyds. Very cold,and seedy next

morning.

7 th —Welford. Rode on ; met at J ohn Gee ’s

house ; found at Hemp lowe . I was seedy,so we

went home early.

9th.—Guilsborough

,met at Renton ’s house ; a

pretty meet . Drew hedges blank,found near

Creaton,ran to Spratton Sands. T om Dryburgh

out. Ran back to Sanders ’ covert ; we went home.

1 2 th—Monday, Sywel l . I thought Sywel l

Wood,but hounds met at the vil lage. Drove

hirel ing to J ohn Drage’

s at Holcot Sent carr iage

to B rixworth,

Coach and Horses Rode on to

E cton,found there

,ran round the house

,and the

fox got on the roof of a shed,and tumbled among

the hounds. Saw J ohn Drage,Britton

,and Shar

man . Rode back to Brixworth,had tea at Coach

and Horses,

” and drove home .

1 5th ,

— Lord F itzwil l iam ’

s Hounds at Maidwel l.

Could not find our horses ; drove R0 to Lamport

to get her horse,and met the groom

,Francis, at

the bottom of the hil l . Hounds had found , ran



Snap es, where I sobel viewed the fox. Ran back

to Boughton . We ought to have caught this fox,

but made a mess of it.

3 l st.—Kirby . Found in one of the woods near

Bulwick ; got stopped by a wire fence ,.and when we

got to them they had checked,and Southampton

had tumbled over a wire fence. Found again and

ran along the avenue at Rockingham. Mr. Mure

tumbled over a rai l and broke his ribs.

2 nd April—Went to Station Hotel,York.

Francis was taken il l,and had to send him home

next morning. Wi red to J im Hewett to come to

K irby Moorside. Rachel and Cooper j oined us

from London . Went to K irby Moorside. The

hotel very good dined with T om Parrington . Penn

and K itty were away hunting a stag at Windermere.

We went to stay with them on their return at Ked

holme Priory. [Penn Sherbrooke,master of the

Sinn ington Hounds]7 th.

-Byland Abbey. Penn has a nice pack of

hounds and a nice way with them. Robin H i l l

whips in to him,and next season is to hunt the pack

of hounds which were F rancis J ohnstone’

s. A very

wild country,and did not find for a long time. Very

dry and did no good . M e t Houston , Sir George’s

brother.

9 th.—Helmsley. Drew moors and bogs in vain.

At last got a scent and ran about two fields and

cast hopelessly about. On getting on my horse the

button of my coat got under flap of the saddle,and

I could not get further up. Some one shoved me

Penn ’s second horseman , went to Helmsley and got

a carriage and I was sent ignominiously home on

wheels. Houston and K itty were very good and

kind to me. Hounds found again,but did no good.

Kedho lme Priory is very nice and pretty,and Penn

and K itty the kindest of hosts. Robin H i l l was

staying there,and I gave him my hunting-whip.

Went to York next day and slept there ; and homeon Wednesday the 1 1 th.

J ohn Horsey,Dal l ington

,Barton

,writes to my

daughter Rosie

I must tel l you a l itt le anecdote of your father.

I f I recol lect right,in 1 864 he drew the lower end

of N obo ttle Wood for his first Pytchley fox.- I was

not there to see him put hounds into covert,not

knowing where he would start,but by the gate on

the road through the wood,where also congregated

a number of foot people,and amongst them a rough ,

noisy,talking keeper. A fox which had ‘found him

self ’ stole across the road,when Colonel T homson

came gal loping up the ride blowing his whistle. T he

keeper said,

‘Wel l,I can remember Osbaldeston

and every other master since,but I never heard a

huntsman blow a whistle before,and I don ’ t think

much of him ’ ‘Wait a bit,old fel low

,

’ I answered,

for I had waited to take stock of the new master ,whom I had not previously met.

“The last season ( 1 895) Goodall had the hounds


at Al thorpe I saw the same keeper— eighty years

old,a pensioner—weeding the paths round the

kennels. I said to him,

‘You remember Osbaldes

ton,don

’

t you ?’ ‘Yes

,and every other master since.

’

‘And whom do you consider the best of them ? ’

‘Why,Captain T homson

,to be sure ; there were

none of them l ike him.

’ ‘Why,you have altered

your opinion since you heard him blow the whistle in

Nobottle Wood .

’ ‘Ah

,I recol lect

,but I did not

hal f know him then .

’

I agree with the keeper : we

Shal l never look upon his l ike again.

”



proud that I was the means of raising a regiment

which has gal lantly d one its duty . I take no cred it

to myself for the Forfar troop with which we are

more immediately concerned tod ay . All credit is

due to Major Carnegy, Sergeant-Major Andrew ,

and that grand old soldier, Sergeant-Major Currie.

When my time was up I was delighted to find in

my successor so smart,energetic and keen an officer

as your present Colonel . T here is this d ifference

between the Light Horse and the Imperial Yeomanry :

every man who joined the F ife L ight Horse could ride

more or less,so they knew at least some part of their

duty . Many of the Imperial Yeomanry had never

seen-

a horse before ; the consequence was that they

tumbled off by the dozen,but their pluck and perse

v e rance was much to be admired,and at the end of

the train ing they made a very decent show and

gained the good opin ion of their inspecting officer.

Sir Archibald Hunter says in his report : ‘The

regiment is ful l of espr it de corps,smart

,intel l igent

officers , good horsemen ,fine physique

,and mounted

on useful horses . T his regiment wil l prove a credit

to its commanding officer , to themselves, and to their

country.

1

N ext morning went to Perth for presentation of

medals . ~Pul lar had invited the whole lot to lunch

at the Salutation Hotel . He asked me to take the

chair. Fortunately,Colonel B rown

,who commanded

7 th Brigade (Devon and Dorsets), to which F ife and

1 The Fife and Fo rfar L ight H o rse , now known as 4o th Regi

m ent , F ife and Forfar Im p erial Ye omanry.



ceasing rain , splashing through poo l s of muddy

water,ankle deep we slowly made our way to the

back of a farm about fifty yards away,where under

some huge gum trees a grave had been dug. Several

of the fi ring party who had no cloaks had their

waterproof sheets over their shoulders and one man

had a corn sack. Colonel Brown read the service,

the rain splashing on his l ittle prayer-book . T he

body was reverent ly lowered by means of a couple

of ammunition belts from a machine gun . T he three

rounds cracked strangely in the rain-laden air,the

water dripping from the rifles. The F i fes marched

sorrowful ly away leaving their beloved Captain

behind them.

On F riday,2 Ist N ovember

,Krugersdorf

,we

entertained Sergeant Pul lar at tea. T his was real ly

a grand,a sumptuous repast. Many a t ime has this

gentleman given us biscuits in the veldt in our hours

of need,papers also to read

,so we meant to do the

thing wel l and we did ! A special invitation was

sent to Sergeant Pul lar by the corporals of the

Sussex squadron,parade order optional . We formed

a table of biscuit-boxes,which we covered with two

recently washed towels . I managed to get a fine

effect of table decorations by taking a spotted red

handkerchief off my neck and laying it star ways as

a centre piece. T hen , having begged and borrowed

al l the tin plates,we covered the table with sard ines,

t inned tongues,pickles

,condensed milk

,j am

,butter

and cake . Sergeant Pul lar having arrived with h is


plate,kn ife

,fork and spoon in a haversack , we sat

down,on S.S.A. cordite mark iv . boxes, to a rattl ing

good repast,to which we did ample j ustice. T hen

it rained,and we had to rig up our blanket hutches

,

and our guest sped back to his tent.

From Arthur Gore, 88th Connaught Rangers

MYBURG , 1 8th D ecember, 1 901 .

I think I was in this same ungenerous spot when

I last wrote. S ince then I have been a good long

trek. I was once more mounted and went Offfrom

A l iwal along the J amestown road . We trekked

about twenty miles that n ight . We were about 1 80

and waggons. T he day after I was sent out with

twelve men and fourteen pack mules to convey food

to Lovat ’s Scouts,who were on a high kopj e cal led

T elemachus Kop. My orders were to take them

to the bottom and they could send for them. N obody

came,so guarded by the Cape Pol icemen

,I went on

,

having heard they were starving. After going about

eighteen miles we came on them gal loping off,and

came to Z uurlaagte ,where the regiment fought in J uly.

My poor mare cut an artery in her fetlock and bled

horribly. I was advance guard with a Cape Pol ice

man and we got there al l right. N ext day four of

our men went out to bring in a horse ; about three

miles out Fouchie caught two of them and shot them

in cold blood. The way was very steep and one

pack rol led down about two miles of precipice.

Eventual ly we caught them up (Lovat’s Scouts), and

they fel l to quickly on jam and biscuits,having eaten


nothing but tough mutton for ten days. Lovat is

a most del ightful person,and so is his brother Alastair

F raser. We al l went down together and found the

rest of the regiment had moved down three miles on

to the battle-field.

N ext morning breakfast at six. Two decent

looking bodies turned up,and proved to be Colonel

Scob e ll and his staff-office r,D both Scots Greys.

After some discussion it was arranged that we were

to move to Ladygrey ; Lovat on the left, us centre,Scob e ll on the right . After marching three miles

we came to Fouchie’

s outposts,who gal loped off.

We got on another five miles and then halted.

Meanwhile Fouchie had caught, wounded, and shot

on the ground,three more men. N ext day Scobe ll

marched on with pack beasts,and left his con

voy,which came into the val ley where we camped

,

within three yards of where I was having my bath.

I t took four hours to pass. T he T asmanians were

left to help guard the convoy. Meanwhi le,aided

and abetted by their officers,they spent their time in

looting two farms,so that night I was sent to one of

them,with twenty men

,to prevent their burning it

as they threatened. I slept in a wood shed,which

was a palatial house after a week ’ s trekking. N ext

morning we were sent for in a hurry at 4 a.m .,as the

column moved off at five. I was riding old ‘T hady

O’

Flynn’

(he is four) he was very fresh and bolted

and sl ipped his saddle over his Shoulders and on to

his neck. The twenty gal lant folk thud behind,and

the further (or faster) goes ‘T hady O

’

Flynn



Lancers, Lovat ’s Scouts,T asmanians

,Cape M .

Rifles (very nice) and Connaught Rangers,G .F .C.

and 7 guns , about men . We marched to

J amestown next morning,two days ’ march , then on

to the N ek,where we parted from the column and

came into Al iwal N orth for a few days ’ rest. T hen

the rest went out again and we were left. I came

here for a few days to give the man who was here

leave and return in about three hours. I should l ike

to see the cutting from the Rad/e ian that Llewel lyn

wrote. We were great friends. I t was me that

brought in the prisoner you mention. I suppose you

saw about the havoc that was wrought at Stormberg

lately . I was so sorry poor Lyons was kil led. He

was at Harrow and on ly n ineteen ; and B landy,a

friend of mine,was ki l led at Molteno.

“ Please tel l Uncle C . lz ow glad I am , but he is

al l wrong about concentrat ion camps. M ost of the

people have the habits of hogs and the morals of

mice,and refuse to be clean . I n their own houses

the whole family sleep in one bed , and the guest

too i f he l ikes , and in camp they refuse to do other

Wi se.

I n August , 1 90 1 , we were at the hydropathic at

Peebles,and there met Sir Robert M enzies ; very

lame but as cheery as ever. He was one of the best

walkers in Scotland unti l quite lately , and when

ordered to resign the command of his volunteers ,being superannuated

,he offered to race any man up

Schiehallion,and was al lowed to go on !


THE MEN Z IES ESTATES OFFICE,“ABERFELDY

,N .B.

,1 1 th F ebruary ,

1 901 .

DEAR M R. AN STRUTHER T HOMSON ,

I have not forgotten the photo you asked

for to place among the fox-hunters of Scotland ,which

I was for a good many years and with considerable

success ; and one day ,I think in the month of J uly

,_

I

got seven brace old ones and four wel l-grown cubs .

On another occasion I found a fox early in the

morning close to here and ran him on into the wood

at Logierait , ten miles off. We got him out of it

again and ran him back again,and kil led him at 3

p m , after hunting him good twenty miles from

where he was found and back to the cairn where he

was kil led .

Yours faithful ly,

“R. MEN Z IES.

He hunted foxes on foot.

I n 1 902 J ohn Bel l of Balbuthie revived the sport

of coursing in F ife. I n former days it was a common

custom in this county,and there were many clubs.

My father buil t the house at K i lmany originally as

the club house of the K ilmany Coursing Meeting.

AS the country became more enclosed the practice

was almost given up.

Andrew Aiken of Carnbee was a keen courser.

H is greyhounds unfortunately one day ki l led a fox.

He took it home and weighed it . When he met hisfriend J ames Clarke ofWorm iston he said , J eames

,

I ’se warrant you’ l l no ’ ken the weight 0’ a tod

H e used to go out walking on Sunday afternoon2 3


with some of his friends . He would say , Laddie ,let out the tykes ; maybe they

’ l l gang w i’ us,maybe

no ”

. A hare jumped up , and away went the tykes.“ H ie

,cutty

,hie

,cutty—Lord forgie me for hunting

on the Sabbath ! ”

On another occasion he ki l l ed a hare on his way

to Col insburgh market . He hung it up on a tree.

Some of his friends having seen this happen took the

hare away and hung up a dead cat . A short t ime

after he invited some of his friends to dinner. The

first dish was always cutty kail (hare soup).

After it was duly discussed and approved of,he said

,

“Aye ,

aye,yon was just the hare I ki l led going to

Col insburgh market


found him on the lawn close to Holyrood Palace :

administering the oath of fidel ity to the archers.

The King and Queen arrived in the afternoon

at Waverley Station . We were asked by the Mon

tague J ohnstones to see them pass from the N orth

British Hotel . Charl ie as Si lver St ick was close to

the K ing’

s carriage ; Major Longfie ld was in com

mand of the escort.

The levee took place at Holyrood on T uesday at

twelve o’

clock. Only three officers were al lowed

to go from each regiment. Maj or M itchel l,J ohn

Haig and I represented the F i fe Yeomanry. About

officers were present. The court was at four

o’clock. Only 600 lad ies were to be admitted,and

only those who had not been or were not going to 1

a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace this year.

T here was a tremendous competition for permission

to attend,and as tooues and high dresses were

substituted for the regu lation court dress,many

and various were the results . Lord Balfour was .

besieged with letters . One lady appeared with

ermine trimmings,which were removed in the ante

room. An ermine tippet l ined with white rabbit

fur was tactful ly turned inside out by the attendants,and the wearer did not discover what had occurred

til l the ceremony was over ! Archers with their bows

crossed were placed at intervals to keep the ladies

from advancing too rapidly into the Presence

Chamber.

Many ladies had started soon after one o’

clock

to be in time . My wife and M iss J ohnstone of Alva


“went together, and found the smal l rooms and door

ways blocked on the way to the P icture Gal lery,

where there was more room. When the curtseyingwas over

,tea was provided in the P icture Gal lery

,

where there was great competition to see the gold

t eapots. I t was al l very wel l done,and the bright

sunshine which began with the arrival of the King

cheered up al l the proceedings.

On Wednesday the K ing inspected the archers

in the garden at Holyrood . Lord Kingsburgh was

good enough to get me a pass to go into the garden .

I there met Mr. Seton,who was the right-hand man

of the archers,but having been unwel l was not

al lowed to be on parade. H e is 6 ft. 4 in. in height

and eighty-one years of age . T here was a bitter

c old wind ,which blew off some of the archers ’ bonnets.

We got round the corner to shelter from the wind

and sat on a window—si l l t i l l the K ing arrived withhis staff. The Queen was also present with her

suite. Lord Denbigh came to me,and said , Do

you remember when you knocked me over with a

dead fox ? ”F ifty years ago I had killed a fox in

the garden at N ewnham paddock,and swung it round

to make the boys stand back,and unluckily hit him

on the head . H e was then a schoolboy. I had a

chat with Sir Henry Ewart , and Lord Colvi l le came

and said,

“ How old are you ? E ighty-four.”

So am I,he said .

After the inspection the K ing called Charl ie

(Si lver St ick-in-waiting) and said ,I see your father

there,

” and walked towards me. Charl ie ran up to

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me,and -said

,

“The King wants

I advanced , and there was a stone

of me. The King looked down at

care ”

. He then Shook hands ,

pleased to see your Maj esty looking so wel l He

smiled,and said

,T hank you

,thank you He then

talked about the parade,etc . ,

and bowed .

and ur interview ended.

GOD SAVE T HE K ING !

THE END .

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Con tents—I. The Ch ild and the Ch ild '

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II. P e o p le —III T he Garden and a few R

T h ings—IV . Dive rs De l igh ts—V . T he Ch i ld

‘Th e Creature s ’

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P ro p erty .—V III. P omp s and Van i t ie s - IX .

D iverti sements .—X . Conduct and Kindred M

X I. Dream s and Reverie s .—X II. Bugb ears ,

Handicraft—X IV . School , Sl igh t ly Conside

X V . Book s —X V I. Language—XVII. Rando

fiections .—Conclus i on .