20 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



tivating, and there is every indication of the old 

 dash and devilry when on the line of a fox. 



The Champion Cup at Peterborough in 191 o was 

 won by Milton Rector (1907), a badger pied hound. 

 Wonderfully symmetrical, and very well turned 

 with great bone, he is perhaps about the truest 

 made hound ever seen on the benches at Milton. 

 A strong-backed hound, and perfectly straight, his 

 breeding is all that could be desired, by Potent (1901), 

 a son of Wentworth Proctor (1898) and Tynedale 

 Ardent (1897), straining back to Milton Somerset 

 (1872). The kennel was in winning form, for when 

 the bitches came before the judges, the champion 

 cup went to Frantic (1908), by Donovan (1906), the 

 1908 Peterborough champion, the dam of Frantic, 

 being Fretful by Belvoir Stormer (1899). 



On the eve of the Peterborough show, Mr and 

 Mrs George Fitzwilliam entertain a large house 

 party, the occasion for the annual puppy show on 

 the flags at the Milton kennels. More often than 

 not the prize-winners pass on next day to Peter- 

 borough to meet all comers, adding to their triumphs 

 by winning further honours. It is a great day for 

 the loyal puppy-walkers of the district, nearly 

 one hundred and twenty couples being sent out 

 each season, besides bitches to whelp at farmsteads. 



The sport enjoyed by the wearers of " the green 

 collar " is consistently good in a country which 

 stretches from Huntingdon to Thrapston, and 

 thence to Stamford and Peterborough. Possessing 

 fine wild coverts, a fox is unlikely to be headed at 

 every turn, because habitations are scarce in the 

 Fitzwilliam country, and the population corre- 

 spondingly small. Though essentially a strong 

 plough country, for the most part spongy and 

 heavy, followers accomplish longer spells of hunt- 



