44 REMINISCENCES OF 



Horse Show. Miss Millard rode them for me, and 

 I sold "Jasper" for ^200. " Jacinth " carried a 

 whipper-in next year, but was not so successful. 



I went to Brixworth on i8th April. Oakeley 

 and I then commenced to get together a pack of 

 hounds. The Gogerddan hounds, Colonel Pryse's, 

 in North Wales, were for sale, so we commissioned 

 John Walker, late huntsman to Sir Watkin, to report 

 on them. Oakeley afterwards went himself to see 

 them. 



"PLAS TANY BWLCH, 

 "CARNARVON, N.W., i^th April. 



" MY DEAR JACK, 



" I saw the Gogerddans on Tuesday. In 

 the first place, Colonel Pryse, the master, is about 

 the most varmint, hard-bitten, good-looking chap 

 you ever saw in your life, keen about every sport. 

 He has killed with his hounds in this wild country 

 fifteen and a half brace of foxes, two days a week. 

 He killed a lot of foxes in the frost, all the men 

 being on foot. And now for the hounds. In condi- 

 tion, I have seen no pack look like them ; they beat 

 even Quorn, Grove or Cotswold. They have lots 

 of power, are very straight (as far as I know) with 

 capital ribs and bone, but a small pack. They are 

 very level for a mixed pack. The biggest dog is under 

 twenty-three, and the smallest bitch with one excep- 

 tion is over twenty-two. They seem right in every 

 way, and no toes down, generally good feet, but a few 

 with moderate ones. But what will you say? on 

 principle, not a dew-claw has been taken off any 



