200 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



Mr. Morrell was offered ^2,000 for his 

 hounds, an offer which he refused, and they 

 were sold under the hammer of Mr. Tattersall 

 at Tubney, on April the 12th, 1858. The sale 

 was so admirably reported in the Field, that 

 we give the description in full. 



The Tubney Sale. 



This long talked of sale came off on Wednesday 

 last. The early part of the day was cold and drizzly, 

 but it brightened up by noon, and there was nothing 

 to mar the great parliament of masters and hunts- 

 men which went into committee " on the flags " that 

 day, as to the merits of the Foreman, the Hercules, 

 the Hector and the Sunderland blood in the kennels. 

 The Duke of Beaufort was prevented by his duties 

 at Court from attending ; but the former class had 

 Lord Sufifield, Lord Southampton, Lord Maccles- 

 field, Lord Willoughby, Hon. F. Sandilands, Mr. 

 Percy Williams, Mr. H. Greaves, Mr. Anstruther 

 Thompson, Mr. Baker, Mr. Tailby, Mr. Dufiield, Mr. 

 H. Hall, Mr. W. Hall, Mr. Villebois, Mr. Cregoe 

 Colmore, Mr. Rigden, Mr. Brockman, Mr. Scratton, 

 Mr. Arkwright, and Mr. Selby Lowndes as its repre- 

 sentatives. The huntsmen and the kennel huntsmen 

 numbered about three-and-thirty, headed by that 

 patriarch of seventy-five, Jim Morgan, the sire of the 

 hardest riding family in England, who has injured 

 one arm so often that he still says, " As I cannot 

 open gates I must jump over them," and acts accord- 

 ingly. Those Nestors of the chase, Tom Sebright, 

 George Carter and Will Long, were there, and the 

 list included Henry Harris, late first whip to the 

 Old Berkshire, who had just received his commis- 

 sion as huntsman to the second pack, which is being 



