296 REMINISCENCES OF 



Giants there lived in days which have gone by, 



Hounds were they better ? or huntsmen ? — well, well ; 

 Keep up your standard, breed only for nose, sir, 

 And stoutness of course, for one can never tell 



What sport in the future may somewhere await you, 

 What runs we may chronicle, ride through and see ; 



But always remember wherever you hunt, sir, 

 To look for a Button that's marked with a B. 



R. E. W. 



Badminton, 30^/; November, 1896. 



"It is rather a curious coincidence that the three 

 great historic packs begin their name with a B. 

 Lord Henry Bentinck, who I believe bred the best 

 pack of foxhounds that ever hunted a fox, kept the 

 Burton country, where he bred his hounds. ' Brockles- 

 by Rally wood,' entered 1843, by 'Basilisk' out of 

 ' Rosebud ' ; ' Basilisk,' by Sir R. Sutton's ' Ring- 

 wood ' out of ' Brazila ' ; ' Rosebud,' by ' Victor ' out 

 of ' Frolic '. Will Goodall, of Belvoir, got him 

 from W. Smith, huntsman at Brocklesby, when he 

 was six or seven years old. He practically made 

 the Belvoir Hounds at that time, and at one time 

 Goodall took out hunting one pack of hounds all by 

 ' Rally wood '.—R. E. W." 



30th November. — Thirteen degrees of frost. 

 Went back to Bath ; stayed at Pump Hotel, and 

 had another spell of massage and rubbing for a 

 week, and again went to Badminton, 



On 1 2th December went to Wiverton. 



14th. — Quorn Hounds, Kinoulton. Knowles gave 

 me a mount on a beautiful horse. Found in Curate's 

 gorse ; had a capital run, and lost in Hoi well village, 



