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Goosey of the Bel voir, and both had the same idea of what 

 a foxhound should be, so that at the time of his death the 

 two packs were as much alike as it was possible for two 

 packs to be. That fatal accident at Barnoldby came as 

 a terrible blow to North Lincolnshire ; and there was a 

 continual pilgrimage of heart-broken sportsmen to the 

 bedside of the stricken huntsman in Mr. Richard Nainby's 

 house. Smith's last Avords to Mr. George Skipworth, 

 brother to Captain " Jack " Skipworth, Avere, " Mind my 

 successor, wherever he may be, never loses sight of Ranter 

 or his blood ; " this was his fiivourite, and actually the 

 last hound he cheered. He was out of Rosebud, the dam 

 of Rallywood, to whom the Belvoir are so indebted. In 

 spite of this, I find only two couple of his puppies were 

 put forward, and he was practically lost sight of; he 

 died in a strange kennel. But he leaves a famous stream 

 of blood in the Brocklesby kennels through his son Nol)le, 

 whose great-grandson Hymen founded the family of Grove 

 Harkaways and Brocklesby Harlequins, and the Duke of 

 Beaufort has a hound called Nelson in the Badminton 

 kennels that is also a direct descendant of old Ranter, 



The following is the inscription on the obelisk at 

 Barnoldby-le-Beck : — 



" In memory of the late William Smith, of Brocklesby, Liucoliisbire. 

 This mouument was erected by his many friends as a token of their 

 regard, and to mark the spot where William Smith, huntsman to the 

 Earl of Yarborough, fell on April 11th, l.S4r». 



" His gallant horsemanship, and his management of hounds in the 

 kennel and in the Held, were never surpassed. His horse falling over 

 a small leap, while Smith was cheering on his favourite hounds, he was 

 thrown on his head, and from the injuries he then received he died on 

 the loth of April, 1S45, at the house of his friend, Richard Nainby, 

 Esq., of this village, by whom the site for this memorial was given, 

 on the 8th day of April, 18G1." 



The following lines were also written for the obelisk, 

 by Sir Charles Anderson, I believe — 



