Some Noted Fox-hounds 



Belvoir for tan, and Burton for wear, sir, 

 Brocklesby keeping you well on the line ; 



Badminton pies swing along cheerily, 

 Finding a scent, be it wild, be it fine. 



Shades of the Belvoir, Goosey, and Goodall, 

 Smith with the ' Rallywood,' Brocklesby's fame, 



Lord Henry Bentinck bred always for dash, sir. 

 Badminton hounds, a time-honoured name. 



Each have their virtue, all are for hunting. 



Entries put forward soon die away ; 

 Like many a huntsman and many a sportsman, 



Leaves but a memory of a long bygone day. 



Giants there lived in days which have gone by, 



Hounds were they better.? or huntsmen ? Well, well ; 



Keep up your standard, breed only for nose, sir, 

 And stoutness, of course, for one can never tell 



What sport in the future may somewhere await you. 

 What runs we may chronicle, ride through and see ; 



But always remember wherever you hunt, sir. 

 To look for a Button that's marked with a B." 



Notwithstanding the fact that the price of " Noted 



Foxhounds" was never so high as it is to-day, I 



propose to lay before you the ideas of perfection 



according to the fancy of Beckford, Hugo Meynell, 



and Assheton Smith. The latter gentleman offered 



and paid looo guineas for twenty couple of Mr. 



Warde's hounds, a very high figure a century ago. 



Mr. Smith had a peculiar power over his hounds, 



and they a great fascination for him. Mr. Smith, 



of course, never fed his hounds in the kennel. 



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