i82 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



Belvoir huntsman came to Blankney with Lord 

 Lonsdale in the 'eighties, and, therefore, often 

 hunted Villager, who had everyone's good word. 



Of the three entries which Lord Lonsdale put 

 forward on the flags at Barleythorpe, the second, 

 viz., that of igog, was the most remarkable. So 

 good a judge as the late Sir Herbert Langham, of 

 Pytchley fame, told me after seeing numerous 

 entries, " the Barleythorpe lot were the best any- 

 where." The occasion of the judging was most 

 interesting, for it was undertaken by three experts 

 who knew the breeding of the pack from its earliest 

 history ; the trio being the Right Hon. Henry 

 Chaphn, M.P., Mr Austin Mackenzie and Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke. The Barleythorpe entry 

 was shown by Lord Lonsdale himself, attired in 

 kennel coat, and the company included eleven 

 huntsmen : Sam Gillson, huntsman to the Cottes- 

 more, Ben Capell, from the Belvoir, George Leaf, 

 from the Ouorn, George Whitemore from the Ather- 

 stone, Frank Freeman from the Pytchlej/, F. Earp 

 from Lord Harrington's, Arthur Thatcher from 

 Mr Femie's, Will Barnard from Mr George Fitz- 

 william's, Charles Gillson from the Meynell, Will 

 W>lls, late of the Hertfordshire, and Charles Travers, 

 late of the Cotswold. Of the bitches whose produce 

 figured in this entry all were bred by Mr Reginald 

 Corbet when master of the South Cheshire, and 

 included Wagtail, Harriet, Notable, Piety, Treason, 

 Warble, Trinket, Trilby, Pansy and Vengeance. 

 A remarkable litter of two and a half couples were 

 by Hertfordshire Sampler (1905) ; who was a son of 

 Mr W. M. Wroughton's Spanker (1900) from South 

 Cheshire Tarnish (1902). The dam of this successful 

 litter was South Cheshire Warble (1904), a daughter 

 of Atherstone Villager (1902) from South Cheshire 



