CHAPTER III. 



A Day with the Heythrop and Sir Thomas Mostyn's 

 Packs — Russell's Terriers — Anecdotes of "Tip" 

 AND "Nelson" — The Process of Manufacturing so- 

 called "Fox-terriers" for the Market. 



They champ'd the bit and twitch'd the rehi, 

 And paw'd the frozen earth in vain ; 

 Impatient with fleet hoof to scour 

 The vale, each minute seem'd an hour. 



Egerton-Warbirton. 



From the period of his first matriculation at 

 Oxford to that on which he donned his bache- 

 lor's gown and quitted the University, Russell 

 appears to have kept no regular record of his 

 hunting days. Nevertheless, when in genial 

 company, the sport and incidents of many a 

 run, witnessed at that time and chronicled on 

 the unwritten pages of his memory, were still 

 ever and anon flashed out with the freshness of 

 a schoolboy who has only recently enjoyed his 

 first mount with a pack of hounds. Upwards 

 of sixty years had rolled by since then ; yet 

 every detail of those early scenes he still 

 painted in colours so fresh and vivid, that it 

 was dilBcult to believe they could have oc- 

 curred in the days " when George the Third 

 was King." 



