50 Modern Dogs. 



hunt of Colonel Thornton and others, to which 

 allusion is made later on. 



In the days of our great-grandfathers hounds met 

 at eight o'clock in the morning; now, excepting in 

 cubbing time, the hour of noon has been reached 

 ere huntsmen and hounds appear on the scene. 

 We have a luxury in our modern sport not to its 

 improvement that our ancestors could never have 

 even dreamt of. 



There is a- tale of a Northumberland hound, 

 descended from Colonel Thornton's Lounger, called 

 the Conqueror, by reason of his excellence, that ran 

 a fox single-handed for eighteen miles and killed 

 him in the end. A doubtful story rather. Another 

 hound of the gallant colonel's had been running riot 

 in covert, and on making her way out, evidently 

 on a strong scent, the whip gave her a cut with 

 his crop, which unfortunately struck out her eye, 

 which lay on the cheek. This did not stop the 

 plucky bitch, for, with her nose to the ground and 

 hackles up, she raced along the line, and in the end 

 was first in at the fox's death, though in the 

 latter part of the run the pack had got on terms 

 with her. Thus she did not kill single handed, as the 

 story is so often told. 



In 1887, Comrade, a well known hound for " trail 

 hunting," was with her owner, Mr. J. Irving, Forest 



