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shire Lord Ducie, of the Vale of White Horse, be- 

 came the owner of his bitch pack for looo gs., and 

 Mr. Greene, of Rolleston, paid 200 gs. for ten couples 

 of dog hounds. The retiring master, however, bought 

 some in himself, and in the end fifty-seven couples of 

 working hounds, fifteen couples of unentered hounds, 

 and six brood bitches realised the total sum of 2201 gs. 

 At another sale in the same country, caused by the 

 death of that fine sportsman Sir Richard Sutton, in 

 1855, the Quorn hounds realised the sum of 1806 gs., 

 Mr. Morrell giving 210 gs. for five couples, and Mr. R. 

 Sutton 300 gs. for five couples and 260 gs. for another 

 five. 



Three years later, on April 14, Mr. Morrell sold his 

 Old Berkshire hounds at the Tubney kennels, near 

 Abingdon, through the agency of Messrs. Tattersall, 

 and those who knew the pack were of opinion that 

 while the bitches were all that could be desired, many 

 of the dogs were heavy, and a little inclined to be 

 throaty and coarse, though taken all round they formed 

 a very useful lot and found no lack of purchasers. The 

 then Duke of Beaufort bid for some of the best, and 

 eighty-one couples realised 2481 gs., which gives an 

 average of a little over 30 gs. a couple. In the June 

 of 1859 occurred the death of Sir Robert Williams 

 Vaughan, of Rhug, a calamity which necessitated the 

 breaking up of his hunting establishment. For nearly 

 forty years Sir Robert had kept hounds, commencing 

 his career, as so many masters of foxhounds have done, 

 with harriers, but on the death of his father he suc- 

 ceeded to the command of the foxhounds in the year 

 1843. It is said of him that he was a fine old English 

 gentleman of the best type, who kept a pack of fox- 

 hounds for the amusement of his wealthier neighbours, 



