228 REMINISCENCES OF 



Now from this you'll see 



That it's foolish to be 



Without great Judson's gum ; 



If you put it to use 



It'll save much abuse 



To riddle de gum-tum-tum. 



(A dvertisement.} 



"(These last four pages are consequently the 

 advertisement sheets.) You've no idea how beauti- 

 fully I made it read, but I'm afraid you will have 

 great difficulty in so doing." 



1888. I gave up the Fife Hounds on ist May 

 and was succeeded by Captain Middleton. He had 

 hunted a pack of harriers for ten years. At the 

 meeting I said that if I went on I did not want any 

 more hounds. The meeting was anxious to give 

 him a good start. A committee was named to 

 arrange about getting some more hounds, consisting 

 of myself and two others. George Cheape had 

 twenty couple of dog hounds for sale, one- and 

 two-year-old hunters, not half broken, and had not 

 been out hunting since Christmas. My co-com- 

 mittee men bought them without seeing them and 

 without consulting me, and Middleton drafted six- 

 teen couple of my old hounds which could hunt to 

 make room for them. When they began cub- 

 hunting these unbroken hounds would hunt rabbits 

 and speak to anything. The old hounds on going to 

 the cry and finding it wrong very soon would not go 

 to a cry at all, and there was no body of old hounds 

 to carry on, and very soon they would not hunt 

 anything. The cry every day was "no scent," but it 



