i6 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



could seldom be wrong, and the mutual confidence 

 between a huntsman and his hounds thus estab- 

 lished, accounts for the excellent hunting qualities 

 which the Milton pack retained under George 

 Carter, the pupil and successor of old Tom Sebright. 

 When the great huntsman died in 1861, after forty 

 years' service, he left George Carter his horn, and, 

 as men say who remember the hounds in old Lord 

 Fitzwilliam's time, the mantle of Sebright fell upon 

 his successor. Sebright said that by careful breed- 

 ing and selection a pack of hounds might be got 

 together in twenty years, if after this period of 

 tutelage hounds be carefully drafted and watched 

 over for sixty years, more favourable conditions 

 can scarcely be imagined. To that state of per- 

 fection the Fitzwilliam pack attained under George 

 Carter." Will Barnard, his whipper-in, a clever 

 huntsman, came to Milton in 1900, and has main- 

 tained the fame of the kennel. 



For the benefit of those interested in hounds, I 

 shall here shortly paraphrase an extract from " Silk 

 and Scarlet," showing how and from what strains 

 of blood Sebright bred during his forty years of 

 service, from 1821 to 1861. 



" The descendants of Druid, who won the trial 

 at Hunts Closes, were generally dark tan, and 

 Dreadnought was a great hound of the sort. 

 Sebright found a great many blue pied in the kennel, 

 descendants of a hound called Glancer, and he 

 united these two strains with success. Lord Yar- 

 borough's celebrated Druid springing from the 

 union. Lord Fitzwilliam had in his turn to thank 

 the Brocklesby kennels for several descendants 

 of a hound called Monarch, who himself became 

 a member of the Milton pack, Sebright being accus- 

 tomed to tell how he went right away from the pack 



