84 HUNTING TOURS. 



which terminated his brilliant career as a 

 master of foxhounds. 



Mr. Walker's huntin2: career in the Burton 

 country lasted but a short time; he hunted it 

 in 1817. Mr. Foljambe and Mr. Musters had 

 each of them brief occupations. The foxes 

 had then a year or two of respite, when Mr. 

 Assheton Smith awakened the dormant spirit, 

 and built kennels and stables at Lincoln. 

 This gentleman kept it two clear seasons, 

 and about the Christmas of the third, dis- 

 posed of the pack and possessions to Sir 

 Richard Sutton. In 182.S, there were many 

 hounds from Mr. Ward's and Lord Lonsdale's 

 kennels ; eleven couples and a half from the 

 former, and four and a half couples from the 

 latter, known to be of gigantic ancestry, and 

 quite consistent with the remarks contained in 

 Mr. Osbaldeston's letter in BelPs Life on the 

 8th of March, 1863. There was, in the year 

 referred to, only one couple from that gentle- 

 man's stud hounds ; but subsequently a vast 

 number were introduced, and the descendants 

 were very numerous from the Squire's Foiler, 

 Prizer, Vaulter, Sportsman, Tomboy, Fen- 

 cer, Flourisher, Falstaff, Ferryman, Castor, 

 Rector, Ranter, Vanquisher, and others. It 



