14 MANAGEMENT OF HOUNDS. 



Lords Lonsdale and Fitzwilliam, Sir Thomas Mostyn, 

 and Messrs. Ward and Osbaldeston, from several of 

 whom I obtained hounds. Some of the old kennels still 

 remain, such as the Dukes of Rutland and Beaufort's, 

 Lord Fitzwilliam and Yarborough's. Mr. Drake, I be- 

 lieve, succeeded to Sir Thomas Mostyn's pack. Lord 

 Southampton purchased also the greater part of Mr. 

 Osbaldeston's late pack. 



For a draft of young hounds I think I should select 

 the pack of the Wonderful Squire of Tedworth, for 

 several reasons. First, he has some good old blood, 

 having bought the Duke of Grafton's hounds ; and be- 

 fore that he had been breeding largely from Mr. Ward's 

 kennel. His hounds have a rough flinty and woodland 

 country to contend with, where they must hunt as well 

 as run. In their performances they are like their master 

 — second to none. They are not halloed and hustled 

 about by whippers-in, although the Squire is occasion- 

 ally very cheery when things go well ; and that happens 

 so often, that I hardly ever saw a day with him when he 

 was not cheery. His hounds, however, are left to do 

 their work pretty much by themselves ; and T may ven- 

 ture to say that no pack of hounds in England, Scotland, 

 Ireland, or Wales, can beat them in any respect. They 

 can show their speed at a racing pace over the Downs, 

 and bustle along through the large woodlands, and over 

 those confounded flinty hills (which rattle like broken 

 bottles), at a rattling rate indeed ; the wonder is, that 

 they don't cut their legs off. The Squire hunts six days 

 a week, and therefore has a large body of hounds in 

 kennel — sometimes nearly a hundred couples ; he breeds 

 largely also, and judiciously — the result of great know- 



