268 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. [1840 



1839 was Sir Tatton Sykes's Furrier, by Mr. Osbaldeston's 

 Flagrant. 



Lord Fitzwilliam sent a very good bitch called Fairy 

 to Brocklesby in 1840, Sebright having a very high opinion 

 of her. Unfortunately she killed all her puppies when she 

 whelped, and as she was then eight years of age, was not 

 bred from again. She was by Flasher out of Sprightly, 

 and goes back to Mr. Corbett's Trojan strain. 



A orood-lookinoj hound from Lord Ses^rave's kennels 

 was Desperate, Henry Ayris, the huntsman, considering 

 him a good worker and a good stallion ; but Will thought 

 him a bit too free of tongue. He was by Woldsman out 

 of Delicate, a grand-daughter of the Duke of Beaufort's 

 Duncan. 



Another good hound used in 1841 was Mr. Foljambe's 

 Harold, who, being by Mr. Osbaldeston's Ranter — Furrier's 

 son by Ruin — out of Harpy, goes Imck to another fine strain 

 of l)lood on the dam's side, for her sire Herald throws 

 l)ack to the Belvoir Saladin, and her dam Julia to the 

 Beaufort Jason. Dashwood, a hound that was used with 

 very great success by the Bramham Moor, was also used 

 in 1841 ; he was by Druid out of Fair Maid, one of old 

 Quorn Furrier's last litter. There were at one time 

 twenty-five couples of Dashwoods, principally bitches, in 

 the Bramham Moor kennels. 



That year stallion hounds went out as follows : — Sports- 

 man to Lord Dacre, Dealer to Lord Mostyn, Wrangler to 

 the Cheshire, while Royal w^ent to Lord Fitzwilliam, 

 Saladin coming to Brocklesby in exchange. 



A note in the hound-list tells us that Thornton College 

 Covert was planted in 1818, Badger Hills was resown in 

 1821, and that Sir Richard Sutton's covert. Great Coates, 

 was sown in the same year, and Yarborough Camp the 

 following. 



By the way, there must have been a tremendous 

 number of foxes in the Brocklesby country at the begin- 

 ning of the nineteenth century, for we read in " Notititia 

 Venatica " that — 



