28 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [isiG 



T.ISES FOR THE ObELISK TO BE ERECTED AT BaRNOLDBY-LE-BeCK, IX MeMORY 

 OF THE LATE WiLLIAM SmITH, IIuNTSMAX TO THE EaRL OF YaRBOROUOH, 



OX Ground givex for the Purpose by Richd. Naixby, Esq., to 

 WHOSE House he was taken after the Accident, axd under whose 

 Friendly Roof he died, 1845. 



"This stone the name of 'William Smith' records, 

 The Hnntsmau skilled of two of Yarborough's Lords ; — 

 Honest and true, of temper well approved, 

 By ' Master ' honoured, and by ' Field ' beloved ! 

 No need to paint that well-known form and face, 

 Which, stainpt on memory, find a welcome place 

 In the warm hearts that knew him, — tlteij recall. 

 By covert-side — in cottage, farm, and hall, 

 (When friend meets friend beside the yule-log's glow, 

 And kindly feelings swell and overflow,) 

 Those happy days, when on the breeze were borne 

 ' Will's ' tuneful holla and his echoing horn, 

 ( Jheering his gallant pack, so stout and l)old, 

 A perfect horseman as e'er crossed the AYold ! 

 And as the vision fades, too bright to last. 

 They sigh to think those days are now 'the past.' 

 Xo need of aught for such as knew him best 

 To keep in mind their valued friend ' at rest ; ' 

 But, for posterity, this stone shall tell 

 The fatal spot where, midst his friends, he fell, 

 And bid them ponder, both in Faith and Fear, 

 How frail the tenure of Man's sojourn here ! 



" CHJA." 



Will Smith kept no account of his first season's cub- 

 liimting, but a brief note says that they were very muck 

 confined to tke woodlands owing to a late harvest ; there 

 were, however, " several very smart bursts," and tkey 

 killed " a great quantity of foxes ; to speak within the 

 number, I shall say twenty brace." 



The season opened on November 4 th, at Ormsby, there 

 being a nice run from Ackthorpe Wood to ground in 

 Withcal Brackens. But the first good daj^ was from 

 Kingerby AVood, hounds running smartly from there over 

 Toft Newton, and marking their fox to ground in Hack- 

 thorn Gorse, However, a fresh fox went away imme- 

 diately, and going first to Hacktliorne village, they ran 

 back, with tlie gorse on the left, to Rise Plantation. The 



