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When Davies was laid up I got Robert Thurlow, 

 who had been Mr. Applewaite's huntsman and kept 

 the Blue Lion Inn ; but as he did not go to the 

 kennel, and hardly knew the hounds, he was not 

 much use. About this time Lord Southampton 

 bought Lord Shannon's hounds, and brought them 

 from Castle Martyr, co. Cork. Will Smith, the hunts- 

 man, who formerly whipped-in to Walker, in Fife, 

 came with them. I went over to Whittlebury and 

 met Tom Lowndes there, who came to mediate 

 between us ; and I bought about ten couple. Some 

 of them were very good, especially a badger-pied dog 

 called " Grampus," as crooked as a ram's horn, but 

 he had a capital nose and never tired. 



The Atherstone were not a good pack of hounds. 

 In Mr. Applewaite's time the officers quartered at 

 Coventry, and hunting men from Leamington, used 

 to talk of a minute with the " tart," which did not 

 sound as if long runs were the rule. 



Among the old Atherstone pack were several 

 which traced back to Mr. Wickstead's Hounds. 

 "Carnage" ran on for eleven seasons. "Active" 

 and " Abigail " were very good. " Active" was the 

 dam of " Ravisher ". 



Mr. Colvile bought Mr. Tudway's Hounds. 

 They were coarse and bull - headed, not much 

 drive in them, and did not improve the pack. The 

 condition was not very good ; my days were too long 

 for them, and they used to tire before I did. 



On the 20th December, 1847, when we met at 

 Stewards Hay, Mr. Martin (in the presence of Mr. 



