Trouncer 



CHAPTER X. 



Tvounccv — Forbidden Gi'oiind — More Vnlpecidc — Passingfovd Bridge — A Success- 

 ful Cnhbiug Season— Col. Cook His Observations — Parson Fane — Lady 

 Warwick as a Whip — Matching Green, 1894 — Man Wood blank for the first 

 time in 11 years — Were they Satisfied? — R. Tilling — Mrs. Mcintosh's Gorse — 

 The Fox of the Year — The Old Hero Dies — Fasten Lodge — Good Sport — 

 Empty Stalls — Brook House — Lockjatv—A Sad Fatality — Bohbingivorth Wood 

 — Daybreak — Cart Shed Wood — Mr. Millbank's Fox Escapes — Nasing 

 Common — Mr. C. Bnry's Foxes — Nicking In — Foxes' Wood — A Real Clinker 

 — Sonnet — Really the Briars Concealed Him — High Roothing Springs — Mr. 

 P. Gold's Bad Luck — Jacob Marriage — A Good Purchase — A Contrast — 

 The Doctor — Away for the Lavers — The Double Ditch — Parish Councils — 

 A Happy Village — The Beachetts — Mr. Bosley's Fox — Peterboro' Show— 

 The Pick of the Kennel — Mr. Benton Stakes his Horse — Sam Fitch — The Grey 

 Cob — The Evening Gallop — Only Three Left — ' Ware Wheat, Sam. 



On the straightest of legs and roundest of feet, 

 With ribs like a frigate his timbers to meet, 

 With a fashion and fiing and a form so complete. 

 That to see him dance over the flags is a treat ! 



Here, here boy ! Trouncer, 



Handsome and good. 



G. J. Whyte Melville. 



WE have substituted "Trouncer" for WHiyte Melville's 

 " I)achelor," the "king of the kennel," but the lines are 

 ipplicable. "Trouncer" who was bred at the Essex 

 by the W'haddon Chase "Tuner" out of "True- 

 lass" by the "Grafton Dancer," was quite the pick of the 

 basket of the Essex Hounds and carried off ist prize for Stallion 

 Hounds in a class of 13 at the Peterboro' Show in 1894. 



Monday, at Passingford Bridge, at 9.30, a fox was found at Curtis Mill 

 Green. Thrice he essayed to break at the bottom end towards Dudbrook, 

 and thrice was he headed by the whip, as on no account were hounds to 



equally . 

 kennels 



