I90 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



Stockings, who never seemed sick or sorry, for 

 he was always out. 



Another favourite horse was a dark brown 

 called "Cannon Ball." Upon Mr. Morland's 

 retirement a portrait of this horse with two 

 hounds, " Prudence " and " Bathsheba,'" was 

 painted ; and the picture, together with a silver 

 hunting horn, was presented to him by the 

 members of the Hunt. The horn bears the 

 inscription, " Presented to T. T. Morland by 

 the members of the O. B. Hunt, April 5th, 



1847." 



In 1840 a visit was paid to Mr. Morland's 



kennels at Sandford by " Rodney," who says 



of them, in the course of an article in the 



Sporting Magazine: "Mr. Morland's hounds 



can boast of some of the best blood. We find 



here the Beaufort, the Grafton, the Moreton, 



Osbaldestone, Codrington, Horlock, Yar- 



borough, Lambton, T. Assheton Smith, Mills, 



Wyndham, and Wickstead, and where can 



better blood be found ? " He says, however, of 



the kennels that they " are much too confined 



and in every respect too small." Probably 



Mr. Morland thought " Rodney's " strictures 



just, for he soon after built new kennels at 



Sheepstead, and moved the hounds there. 



To those kennels, as a boy, the late Mr. 



Charles Duffield was a constant visitor, and 



