LORD KINTORE 91 



entered in 1821. This hunting establishment 

 was broken up in 1825, when the following- 

 letter appeared in the Sporting Magazine : — 



Sir, — I regret exceedingly to find Lord Kintore 

 parting with his hounds, for barring a little heat of 

 temper, which every master of hounds is subject to, 

 occasioned by over-anxiety for the sport of the field, 

 a greater genius, or a greater slave to foxhunting, 

 either in kennel or in field, never hunted hounds. I 

 understand after leaving the Turriff country last 

 October (where a rare coincidence one day occurred, 

 when he met at Dalgaty, a largish woodland, his 

 hounds immediately challenged to Roe deer, which 

 they were well rated from and stopped ; a leash of 

 foxes were then on foot, and the two and twenty 

 couple then divided and each lot killed their fox). 

 And that he afterwards in Forfarshire, during the 

 following month of November, either ran to ground 

 or killed, every fox they found ; but so fond is he of 

 hunting that I do not despair of seeing him at work 

 again at no very distant period. 



Yours, &c., 

 A Southerner in the North. 



Lord Kintore was accustomed to give very 

 high prices for his horses, and at the sale of his 

 stud in Scotland, on his giving up in 1825, the 

 following prices were reached : " White Stock- 

 ings," sold to Lord Lyndock for ^41 1. " Pro- 

 vincial," his brother, was bought in at £2,Z^- 

 " Bolivar," the finest of the three brothers, but 

 with only three legs, went to Captain Hunter 

 for £60. His advent to the Berkshire country 



