HUNTING TOURS. 47 



his energies were signalised with the greatest 

 success. On his resio-nation, the hunting^ es- 

 tablishment was disposed of through the 

 agency of Messrs. Tattersall. When a first- 

 rate pack becomes thus dispersed, the regret 

 is not confined to the disbanding of the gal- 

 lant force, for it frequently happens that 

 many of the celebrities, invaluable for breed- 

 ing purposes, cannot after a few years be 

 traced. The o^enealooical tree is dismem- 

 bered, and difficulty is experienced in estab- 

 lishing a title.* The amount realised for Mr. 

 Morrell's hounds was nearly 2,600 guineas — 

 2,000 guineas having been previously refused 

 for them. This produced an average of 

 £S2 I2s. Sd. per couple, the Duke of Beau- 

 fort, Earl of Stamford, Lord Southampton, 

 Hon. F. Villiers, Messrs. Duffield, Villebois, 

 and Scratton, being the principal purchasers. 

 Five lots of hunting hounds and one lot of 

 unentered hounds were bought in, and pre- 

 sented by Mr. Morrell to the V..W. H. 



* To obviate this, I propose to publish a Kennel Stud 

 Book, containing complete pedigrees of the celebrated sires 

 of olden times ; tracing them through the sales by which 

 many of them have been dispersed to their position in the 

 packs of the present day; together with full lists of all exist- 

 ing packs. 



