THE VALUE OF FOXHOUNDS 235 



an elephant, and that was Mr. George Nurse. Truth 

 compels us to say that the hounds were hardly as good 

 as the horses. This, however, may be accounted for 

 by the fact that Mr. Maughan had had bad luck with 

 his hounds, and had to depend to a great extent on 

 drafts. They were not particularly level, while some 

 were deficient in bone and other qualities. Still, there 

 were some nice hounds among them, as the Bramham, 

 Badminton, Lord Yarborough's, Milton, Quorn, Bel- 

 voir, Warwickshire, and Eggesford blood was repre- 

 sented. For these twenty-one couples there was but one 

 bid — 15 gs. — by Mr, Nurse, and for that sum he became 

 possessor of the pack — a bargain, when we call to mind 

 that ere now five couples have brought 720 gs." 



On April 25, 1885, owing to Mr. Arthur Longman 

 giving up, the Old Berkeley East were brought to the 

 hammer and seventy-eight hounds with puppies fetched 

 ;^ii6i, or an average of ;^i5 12s. 6d., Sir R. Sutton 

 giving 220 gs. for two couples of unentered bitches, 

 while it should be added that a few seasons before Mr. 

 Mackenzie had bought the dog hounds to hunt the 

 western portion of the country with. In March, 1886, 

 Mr. Deacon sold twenty-eight couples of foxhounds 

 from the kennels of Mr. C. A. R. Hoare at the V.W.H. 

 Repository, Swindon, when Mr. Van Notten Pole, of 

 Watermor, Cirencester, bought the five lots for ^^15 ids. 

 At the following Rugby Hound Sale nineteen and a half 

 couples of the East Sussex were sold for 293 gs., 52 gs. 

 being given for three couples, while a draft from the 

 South Dorset, consisting of three and a half couples, 

 realised 47 gs., the best price of the day. 



The sale of the year, however, was recorded when the 

 Cattistock, which the Earl of Guildford had purchased 

 a few years previously from Mr. Froude Bellew, were 



