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description, which he used to show as specimens of 

 the Quorn hounds. He called them Queer'em and 

 Quornite j but we believe he never entered them, 

 and kept them as a derision on the pack. 



Charles and Harry Warde were both fine horse- 

 men and first-rate sportsmen, and whether they ever 

 attempted to influence the old squire to change his 

 style of hound we know not, but be that as it may, 

 he never did. Robert Forfeit hunted them many 

 years, and did as well as any one could with that 

 sort of pack. Talking of sportsmen, Jem Butler 

 was the man, as he probably knew more of hunting, 

 and studied the genius of the hound more than any 

 one of his time. He had a peculiar method of 

 breaking his hounds, which no one before him ever 

 carried to so great excess, or with such perfect suc- 

 cess. He did not put a whipper-in before and 

 another behind them to prevent their breaking 

 away ; and he never would have them rated till they 

 had committed a fault. " Let them wander where 

 they will," he used to say, "if they run a hare, 

 they cannot run her long, without checking, and 

 that's the time to rate 'em." He was no advocate 

 for the whip. " As long as the old hounds are 

 steady/' he said, "I can make the young ones so 

 without flogging. He knew when to let them alone, 

 and when to stir 'em, better than most men. Ori- 

 ginally he was whipper-in to Bob Forfeit, till Bob 

 gave it up, and then he succeeded him. In his 

 younger days he lived with Sir Clement Cotterell, in 

 Oxfordshire, and hunted his otter hounds, and after 

 that hunted a pack of beagles; and he had such an 

 eye that he could almost prick a hare in his gallop. 

 One of his invariable rules was never to get their 

 heads up. If he viewed a fox, he would, even if they 

 were at a check, give them a certain time to work it 

 out, and if obliged to lift them, would do it in a trot, 

 and keep their noses down as if trying for it. His 



