THE BROCKLESBY HUNTSMEN. 



The first huntsman of the Brocklesby that we hear of is 

 Tom Smith the elder ; but little is known of him, though 

 his portrait by Stubbs, painted in 1776, which would be 

 after the old man had given up carrying the horn, tells us 

 ever so much. His cheery red face and white curly hair 

 make an ideal portrait of the old-time huntsman, while 

 his erect but easy seat in the saddle denotes that not only 

 was the old man a horseman, but that he possessed 

 unusual vigour and health. The present Lord Yarborough's 

 great-great-grandfather considered him a very fine horse- 

 man, but Will Smith thought that his own father, the 

 second Tom Smith, was the better of the two. " Young " 

 Tom started to whip-in to his father when fourteen years 

 of age, and had two rare tutors in his Master and his 

 father ; he never took service with any other pack, nor 

 did his son Will. In Stubbs' picture the old man is 

 seated on a favourite horse called Gigg ; but Brilliant, the 



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