1866] CONSTITUTION OF THE PACK. 277 



Mr. Spencer Lucy's offer to agaiu become master was 

 accepted. 



On February 14tb, 186G, the Bicester hounds had a 

 very fast run from Boddington Gforse for half an hour 

 without a check, and killed at Chipping Warden. Mr. 

 Henry Lambton, Mr. Parkinson, Mr. W. Chamberlayne, 

 and Mr. John Mordaunt were nearest the hounds. Squire 

 Drake was about one field further back, loudly calling to 

 the others not to ride over his hounds when they could 

 only just hold their own with them. 



I remember on one occasion, at the end of a slow hunting 

 run, a stranger was pointed out to Mr. Noi-th, who was told 

 that this man had been persistently riding over the hounds 

 for about an hour. Mr. Noi-th rode up to him, and gave 

 him some wholesome advice, and, in conclusion, he said to 

 him, "I hope, sir, that when you are in such and such a 

 place you will be a hound, and that they will be 

 perpetually riding over you." — C. M. 



The Constitution of the Pack. 



In the list of hounds for 1861, when Lord "Willoughby 

 de Broke and Mr. North were joint masters, other kennels 

 were much resorted to for the composition of the pack. Of 

 fifteen and a half couples composing it, the sires of seven 

 and a half were from the Belvoir kennel. Two sires came 

 from Sir Watkin Wynn's pack, and one from the Duke of 

 Beaufort's. The Warwickshire sires were Gimcrack, 

 Champion, Stormer, and Wellington. (ximcrack was 

 entered in 1854, and was by the Belvoir Gruider — Telltale ; 

 Champion was entered in 1857, and was by Lord Pitz- 

 harding's Challenger — Tidings ; Stormer, entered in 1858, 

 was by the celebrated Saffron — Waspish ; Wellington, 

 entered in 1858, was by Watchman (Lord H. Bentinck's 

 Woldsman — his Eachel, and bought by the late Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke as a three-year-old in 1858) 

 out of Songstress. The dams were from the Warwick- 

 shire kennel, except the Duke of Beaufort's Pearless, 

 which is entered as dam to Hymen bv the Duke's 



