262 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1830 



to John Walker, at the South Wold in a draft, where she 

 had a litter to Brocklesby Minister. A very useful gift 

 was Proctor from Sir Tatton Sykes's kennels in 1830, who, 

 by Lord Middleton's Denmark out of Sir Tatton Sykes's 

 Abigail, went back on his sire's side to the great Brocklesby 

 Ranter of 1790. The same year Smith exchanged some 

 bitches with Mr. Foljambe, the two and a half couples 

 that came to Brocklesby being by Random, Sir Tatton 

 Sykes's Driver, and Sir Richard Sutton's Rocket and 

 Watchman. 



Mr. Osbaldeston's Furrier was used in 1830 and 1831, 

 and was the sire of five litters of puppies, the other out- 

 side blood coming with Sir Tatton Sykes's Prizer and 

 Monarch, and the Badsworth Sifter, Mr. Muster's Saladin, 

 and Lord Harewood's Pilgrim. Pilgrim afterwards went 

 to Mr. Wemyss in Fifeshire. Of Jailor, a son of Sir 

 Tatton Sykes's Monarch, the " Druid " says — 



" None of them could carry a scent like him through the steam of a hundred 

 horses on the road ; and on one occasion he took it half a mile along the top of 

 a sod wall at Croxby Warren, with the pack on both sides, and his great bushjr 

 tan stern waving like a banner, till * the Brocklesby boys ' were in raptures." 



Old AVill Smith used to say that he always went to 

 Sir Tatton for ribs. 



The home-bred Furrier, Reveller, and Glancer were the 

 favourites about that time. 



Li 1831 one comes across the following footnote to the 

 hound-list — 



" Lord Middleton — who has this spring given up his hounds, which he sold to 

 Sir Richard Sutton — offered Lord Yarborough two litters of whelps, and when 

 he sent for them he gave us eleven and a half couples of puppies (a cartload), 

 and offered us all he had, and what we did not have they killed. Therefore the 

 whelps from his lordship's bitches are bred by him. We gave him Grappler for 

 a stallion hound last year. Several of these puppies were afflicted with kenne] 

 lameness, and out with their elbows and stifles. I killed four couples which I 

 thought not worth sending out, and we did not keep a single hound. They had 

 been very much neglected at Wollaton kennels, and going out bad ones to 

 quarters, they came in the same." 



In 1832 Lord Yarborough got a young bitch called 

 Patience from Lord Lonsdale. She was by his Prowler 



