Fox-hunting Past and Present 



best strains. The above hound celebrities pro- 

 bably have descendants in every pack in the 

 United Kingdom. 



I quote the following ideas on hound-breeding 

 written by Mr. R. E. Wemyss at Badminton in 

 November 1896. Mr. George Lane-Fox died on 

 the 4th November. I see by Col. ]. Anstruther- 

 Thomson's memoirs it may not be generally 

 known that Col. Thomson hunted with loi packs 

 in all, and Mr. Randolph Wemyss with 56. Mr. 

 Wemyss says: 'Mt is rather a coincidence that 

 three of the historic packs begin their name with 

 a B. The Lord Henry Bentinck who hunted 

 the Burton, it is said, bred the best pack of 

 hounds that ever hunted a fox. Brocklesby by 

 Rally wood, entered 1843, by Basilisk, by Sir R. 

 Sutton's Ringwood out of Brasila, Rosebud by 

 Victor out of Frolic. Will. Goodall, of Belvoir, 

 got him from W. Smith, huntsman at Brocklesby, 

 when he was six or seven years old. He prac- 

 tically made the Belvoir hounds at that time, 

 and at one time Goodall took out hunting one 

 pack of hounds all by Rallywood." 



The same gentleman penned the following lines 

 also at Badminton : — 



" Belvoir and Brocklesby, Badminton, Burton, 



' B,' on the Button, wind up the horn ; 



Over the Rides, cheer up the chase, boys, 



No matter the kennel at which they were born. 



116 



