250 . Mr. Arkwi'ight and the Oakley. 



He said, " No, you would crab anything! " It 

 was too true however ; soon afterwards this 

 hound led all the pack up a road for two hundred 

 yards to two men standing therein. They told 

 Beers that no fox had been there, and pointed to 

 the hound which brought the pack on. Down 

 went the character of that breed ! My readers 

 may see in Winfield's Lecture, which I shall give 

 later on, what he thought of that failing. 



The Oakley hunted in the Chase until " Prim- 

 rose Day," when the ladies did not forget to mark 

 the occasion. 



Mr. Arkwright, at one time, had a small black- 

 and-white pack ; there was nothing dismal about 

 them, the white predominating ; they took honours 

 at Peterborough, even when G. Carter was so 

 stroncr with the Fitzwilliam Hounds. 



Mr. Arkwright and Tom Whitmore, with the 

 above-named pack, riding into the meeting-field, 

 looked as much like fox-catching as one could 

 imagine. This pack acted well in the woods, 

 and hunted over the ploughs to the satisfaction 

 of the Master and his followers. Two days in 

 the Chase I remember very well. One was in the 

 middle of the season. The meet was Cowper's 

 Oak. It was not long before we hit on a fox 

 and hunted from fox to fox for an hour and a half^ 



