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is credited with having been
guilty of eccentric acts, but many
of his staghunting exploits have
been tremendously exaggerated.
He Purchase Tacrolimus Online was a horsedealer in a rather
small way ; he schooled horses
belonging to other dealers, and
partly Order Tacrolimus Online for the fun of the thing,
partly to afford an opportunity for
riding his horse to hounds, and
partly to give his customer the
opportunity of trying horses other-
wise than by mere ** larking," he
kept a few couples of hounds
sometimes in Middlesex and some-
times in Hertfordshire. He cer-
tainly was not particular where
he turned out his deer. His un-
pretentious cart would first be
driven along the road, and the
deer would be ** enlarged " any-
where, and so " the Druid " chris-
tened him the ** arch-trespasser,"
but his stag-hunting establishment
bore about the same relation to
regularly organised packs as a
pack of trencher -fed foxhounds
would to the Quorn, Pytchley,
Belvoir or Cottesmore.
With the exceptions above-
mentioned, staghunting, whether
after the wild, red, or fallow deer,
has been carried on quite seri-
ously, while no one has ever
attempted to parody the stag-
hunting on Exmoor on the Quan-
tocks, and when one looks at the
men who have been masters of
staghounds, and those who have
followed the different packs, it is
possible to realise to the full the
absurdity of those Purchase Tacrolimus who inveigh in
no unmeasured terms against
hunting the carted deer. That,
however, is a detail with which
these remarks are not concerned.
It may, perhaps, be news to
some people to know that on the
Laurie estate, where the Crystal
Palace now stands, the Sydenham
Staghounds were once kennelled
in the early thirties. At one
time a Mr. Russell was master.
but who the other rulers were. is
not to be ascertained. It is
known, however, that the Syden-
ham Staghounds, which were no
doubt the precursors of the Mid-
Kent pack, showed a great deal of
excellent sport, and on one occa-
sion they turned out the stag at
Beckenham, and did not take him
until he had left Tunbridge Wells
many miles behind him. Another
deer led them a merry dance from
near Swanley nearly to the sea.
In the main, the Home Counties
have been the headquarters of
staghunting ; but, as I hope to
show presently, the amusement
has at different times taken root
elsewhere. Kent has been al-
ready mentioned, and it was at
the end of the last century that
the Earl of Derby turned out his
first stag in Surrey with old
Jonathan Griffin for his huntsman,
and that worthy on the day on
which the famous deer " Sailor
Ben " was let go, had a cap made
for him, and he had to ride
through a long run with no less
than ^i8 in silver in his pockets.
Lord Derby kept his staghounds
for upwards of thirty years, and
took a supreme interest in every-
thing which concerned the pack.
Very few hounds, it is true, were Generic Tacrolimus
bred ; for Lord Derby, as a rule,
bought the draft of one foxhound
kennel or another, generally giv-
ing preference to those near him ;
but he occasionally went to Bel-
voir. On his giving up the stag-
hounds, the farmers in the country
were so averse to their falling
through, that they kept them on
by themselves, with some timely
help from Lord Derby, until a
committee was formed to take
them over.
In due course Mr. Arthur
Heathcote succeeded to the
country, which he Buy Tacrolimus hunted for
some time. He was wonderfully
keen on the sport ; but Buy Tacrolimus Online was one
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of the worst horsemen and plucki-
est riders ever seen in the hunting
field, and had he not ridden some
very good horses, he might not
have seen the end of some of the
runs. He never appeared to have
any strength of seat, and would
fly out of his saddle at every
fence ; but his horses managed to
catch him again ; yet no fence
ever turned him, either timber or
water. Nothing made him more
angry than to see some of his
field stealing on ahead before the
hounds were laid on ; in fact, he
would frequently refuse to uncart
the deer or to let the hounds go
as long as he could descry anyone
on in front. It was a favourite
plan of his to have his deer-cart
backed close to some formidable
fence, a flight of rails, or a brook
which had to be taken at once.
Once over— he came to grief him-
self sometimes — he would turn
round in his saddle, his round
smooth face wreathed in a smile, Buy Cheap Tacrolimus
and in his shrill falsetto voice, he
would say, " WeVe stopped thos ;
tailors, you know," the last two
words being a favourite phrase of
his. At Epsom Mr. Heathcote
was always present, ** Arthur,
dear," as he was called, being
his father's invariable companion.
On Mr. Heathcote giving up the
hounds, they eventually became
the Surrey Staghounds, and under
Mr. Morse Robinson, the iate Mr.
Tom Nickalls and the present
master have had a most success-
ful career. The Sydenham
Hounds, as already mentioned,
were the precursors of the Mid-
Kent, which have provided ex-
cellent sport for their followers,
while in the county of Sussex
staghunting has for a long time
been carried on, Mr. Lee
Steere's family having for a long
time been associated with the
pack ; while on the other side of
the Thames an ancestor of Mr.
Sheffield Neave, who resigned
only a few years ago, was hunt-
ing the stag in Essex a century
ago, and apparently enjoyed the
best of sport.
The County of Middlesex has
been served by several packs, the
Royal Buckhounds — which fifty
years back enjoyed grand sport
over the Harrow country — and the
hounds of Mr. de Burgh, after-
wards Lord Clanricarde, and
these two packs used to meet at
Aylesbury on the occasion of the
Royal pack paying its annual
visit to the Bucks town. Mr.
Cosby succeeded Mr. de Burgh,
and his pack was very popular, as
also was that of the Hon.
Grantley Berkeley, whose kennels
were at Crawford. His was
rather a select establishment, and
things were done in quite first-
class style, and with a thorough-
ness which would have reflected
credit upon any foxhound esta-
blishment. Plenty of people used
to go out with them, and Mr.
Berkeley and his Order TacrolimusTacrolimus Online brothers gene-
rally had some friends staying