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when George was huntsman to Lord Tavistock, he having 

 migrated, upon the Marquis resigning the country, 

 with that superior pack, which then became the pro- 

 perty of Lord Southampton, into Leicestershire. To 

 prove that blood was my object, and that I did not fear 

 a transfer from the grass countries, I should mention, 

 that I had also not a few choice hounds, of Lord Lons- 

 dale's breeding, both young and seasoned, from Lambert ; 

 but to come to the luck, the luck coming at once, (which 

 might not, in a series of years, if ever, have occurred, 

 and to which I attribute all the satisfaction that has since 

 accrued to me) — this was a draft of sixteen couples from 

 Lord Segrave's kennel, at Berkley Castle, whither I chs- 

 patched Boxall, on a special embassy in quest of them. 

 It was singular that the next pack succeeding to that 

 which I have just mentioned, in the Oakley country, and 

 to which I must ever refer with reverential attachment, 

 should have consisted, at the time they left Bedfordshire, 

 of a lot of hounds approaching, in my humble opinion, 

 as nearly to perfection, in all requisites and capabilities for 

 shewing sport in any country, as it is possible to arrive. 

 I need not add, that I allude to those which were the 

 property of the Hon. G. Berkley. I am not about to 

 enter into the Bedfordshire pohtics of those days, or to 

 inquire what might have" been the reasons inducing that 

 gentleman, on the one hand, to leave a country, and, on 

 the other, allowing a country to part with him and his 



