1839] THE FIRST WILL SMITH. 71 



Simple, being by Arbutus out of a mare by Sir Malagigi. 

 Among the hounds are portraits of Ariel (1838), Hoyal 

 (1837), Rosebud, the dam of Eallywood (1839), Annabel 

 (1833), and Duncan (1834). 



Lord Yarborough also has in his possession another 

 picture by Davis, painted in 1840, representing Will 

 Smith and his two wliippers-in, Will Mason and Jack 

 Backhouse, going to covert with the hounds. 



The pick of the day's sport on November 17th was a 

 splendid forty minutes, from Beelsby Covert to Rothwell, 

 hounds running from scent to view and pulling their fox 

 down in mid-field ; and this was followed by a forty-five 

 minutes from Badger Hills to Swinhope, where again 

 hounds killed " handsomely." Smith says he never saw^ 

 hounds run so well. 



The bad earth-stopping, together with the new meal, 

 seem to have been the bane of Smith's existence at that 

 time, and each week finds an outcry against the one or 

 the other. 



A moderate season came to an end on April 12th, 

 ninety-nine foxes having been killed after providing sport 

 of a very varied character. For this Smith blames the 

 new meal and the open earths, the former making it im- 

 possible for him to keep his hounds in good and healthy 

 condition, while the latter completely spoils foxes. " If 

 they cannot get to ground in one place they do in another, 

 and they are always looking for it. Foxes will not show 

 sport unless they are eftectually stopped out," 



Those hounds standino; over 23 inches were at the end 

 of the season sent to Sir Richard Sutton, he sending back 

 an equal number of his own hounds under that height, in 

 exchange. The standard was fixed as before stated. 



A new season opened on October 31st from Swallow 

 village ; but Smith makes no remarks on the cub-hunting, 

 during which he killed twenty-five foxes. 



But Lord Worsley and Sir Richard Sutton were out at 

 Croxby village on November 1st, and the former and 

 Lord Gardiner were out on November 22nd, and saw a 



