BHKEDING AND HUNTING OF FOXIIOUND.S. T-J 



clamagos and costs. Tlio trial took placo at Glou- 

 cester, and may be remembered by many as well 

 as myself from the amusement created by the late 

 Duke of Beaufort's huntsman, Bill Long, whom 

 nothing could induce to say what ha himself hicw 

 of Ms own knoivled(jG of the value of a murdered 

 puppy of the sort. Long would only say what 

 Sir William Codrington said to him ; and as he, 

 Long, could be got to tell no other tale, of course 

 his hearsay evidence could not legally be received. 

 Long retired from the witness-box without liaAdng 

 thrown a ray of light on the value he was called to 

 prove. Talfourd, who was for the defence, asked 

 me to explain ^^ why I put so high a value on a 

 puppy that had never hunted," and I ex|)lained 

 ^' my reason for it arose through my personal 

 knowledge of the cost of breeding a hound full-sized 

 and handsome, and clever enough to be put for- 

 ward," and Talfourd sat do^vn. 



At this moment I forget the numl)er of hounds 

 bred from, in a given season, by the first Lord 

 Fitzliardinge in the Berkeley Castle kennels ; but 

 I know that on one occasion seventy-five couples 

 were put out to walk. The walks around the 

 Castle were, for the most part, on dairy farms, and 



