APPENDIX. 



I. Trojan. 



From Nimrod's account in the Sporting Magazine of January, 

 1825. 



"Whoever has hunted in Warwickshire has heard of 'the 

 blood of the Trojans,' which was a standing toast in that 

 country when Mr. Corbet hunted it, and was always drunk 

 after ' the King ' in the club-room at Stratford-on-Avon. 

 The hero from whom these modern sons of Ilion were 

 descended was one of the best foxhounds that ever challenged 

 on a fox, and whose blood has circulated through most of the 

 first kennels in the United Kingdom. Various have been 

 the reports respecting this celebrated hound, some of which 

 gained credit enough to be believed. One was that he came 

 astray to Mr. Corbet's kennel, and distinguished himself by 

 carrying the scent for a considerable distance along the top 

 of a park wall, thereby recovering his fox when lost to the 

 rest of the pack. Whether he ever performed this exploit 

 (as he was before my time) it is not in my power to determine ; 

 but certain it is that old Trojan was bred by Mr. Corbet, and 

 got by Lord Spencer's True-boy out of a bitch called Tidings 

 (of unknown pedigree) purchased by Mr. Corbet at Tatter- 

 sail's. 



" Trojan was entered in 1782 and hunted nine seasons. He 

 would never look at a hare, and would speak only to a fox, 

 a marten cat, or a pheasant. In his day, however, pheasants 

 in Warwickshire were not much thicker than foxes, so that 

 this propensity, if I may so call it, was of little consequence, 

 for in chase he was as perfect as his nature could make him. 



