18 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1746 



cream-coloured horse whicli the younger man is riding, 

 was never very good, albeit a thoroughbred. He was 

 bought from the Duke of Grafton to carry Mrs. Pelham, 

 and though a quick, pleasant, snaffle-bridle hunter to ride, 

 was not so stout as he should be ; and in those days, 

 before the country was drained, and long slow hunts in 

 deep ground was the general order of things, stoutness 

 was a necessity. Brilliant ran fourth at Newmarket in 

 the Duke's colours. The hound in the picture, Wonder by 

 name, was a very good dog, and was bred in 1770, being 

 by Tatler out of Trickster. 



John Smith used to tell his nephew. Will Smith, that 

 the i3ainting was a perfect likeness of the old man, his 

 father, and his exact seat on a horse. This John Smith 

 was a very much younger man than his brother, the second 

 Tom Smith, and whipped-in to him for many years. He 

 carried the horn for Lord Scarborough one season, but 

 that was the only place he took away from Brocklesby. 

 He was a great martyr to gout, which eventually carried 

 him off in 1824, but he had not then been hunting for 

 many years. Will Smith considered him a good whipper 

 in, though somewhat severe ; but as he has something to 

 say of him in his " Thoughts on Hunting," I will not 

 make further reference to him here. 



Old Tom Smith, like all the Smiths, was buried at 

 Brocklesby. If the old man had but kept diaries, what 

 interesting reading of fox-hunting in the first half of the 

 eighteenth century they would have been. 



It is not known when Tom Smith first started to carry 

 the Brocklesby horn, but that he was doing so in 1746 

 his carefully prepared hound-lists go to prove. It is 

 believed that the Smiths were tenants on the estate before 

 one of the sons took service under the lord of the manor. 



