The FUzwilliam. 55 



THE EITZWILLIAM.* 



That this great pack lias been a handred and five 

 years the property of the Fitzwilliam family is no 

 little to say of it. But present merit has more to do 

 with our subject than past history ; and it is more to 

 the point to be able to add that_, in the field or on the 

 flags^ none of its younger rivals can give it the go-by. 

 Witness the Hound Show at Peterborough (July 1878) 

 — when none but an even older kennel_, the Brock- 

 lesby, had any chance with it — endorsing what we 

 have always held^ that confirmed excellence must belong 

 ever to private than to subscription packs. The 

 Fitzwilliam or (as it is even better known in kennel 

 parlance) the Milton bloody has — like the Belvoir and 

 Brocklesby — built many a pack, but suffered no 

 deterioration in the process. Eefreshing itself now 

 and again with a slight infusion from other sources — 

 chiefly from the two just named — it has ever kept 

 itself not only vigorous but steadily improving. And 

 that good looks and good work should — and with 

 them do — go together, is proved by their system of 

 breeding only from the best working hounds. Indeed, 



* Vide "Stanford's Railway and Hunting Map," sheets 10 and 16. 



