1896] WILL DALE. 163 



AVold, would be the first to acknowledge the assistance 

 Dale was to him in the building up of his kennel, and in the 

 sporting history of Lincolnshire his name must find a well- 

 deserved place among such as the Pelhams, Lord Henry 

 Bentinck, Mr. Saville Foljambe, and the Brocklesby Smiths. 



Mr. J. Maunsell Richardson knew that, when he gave 

 up hunting, the Brocklesby dog hounds and his interest in 

 the breeding of the pack would be in good hands when 

 left in Dale's, and one of Dale's treasures is a letter from 

 Mr. Eichardson telling him that under his care he has 

 every confidence that the historic pack will not deteriorate 

 either in good looks or work. 



Among other highly prized letters are a batch from 

 Mr. F. J. S. Foljambe, in one of which he refers to a great 

 day's sport on which occasion Dale had no whippers-in out 

 to help him, yet never a hound was missing at the finish. 

 " This," said Mr. Foljambe, " would have earned you the 

 blue ribbon in my father's estimation." Mr. Foljambe 

 also writes in complimentary terms of a great run in the 

 Buslingthorpe country, and of a great scenting day at 

 Swinhope, when hounds could drive over ground stained 

 by thousands of rooks, and through a wide spread of 

 rubbish smoke, extenting for most of a mile. 



Dale's hunting career may be summed up as follows. 

 He was born in the Oakley Kennels in 1834, whipped-in 

 first to his father with the Surrey Union, and at the age 

 of thirteen to Mr. Johnson, whose harriers were at that 

 time hunting the Wytham district of Lincolnshire. Here 

 he remained two seasons, and then went as second whipper- 

 in to the Duke of Buccleuch's for one season, and to the 

 V. W.H. (Lord Bathurst's) for another. In 1863 Dale 

 went to the Rufford, Major Welfitt being the then Master, 

 and three seasons later was transferred to Lord Gal way's, 

 where he spent four seasons, and then he went as first 

 lieutenant to Mr. F. J. S. Foljambe at the Burton. It 

 was in 1871 that he went to Mr. Foljambe, and in 1873 

 he was promoted to carry the horn, which he did, with 

 the greatest success and to the utmost satisfaction of all 



