1 44 HUNTING TOURS. 



in that true land of sporting, Shropshire, 

 under Mr. Corbet, at the time the eccentric 

 and enthusiastic Tom Moody was in tliat 

 gentleman's service as whipper-in. About 

 the year 1790 he was hunting the hounds 

 kept by Mr. Button, at Slaughter, near Stow 

 in the Wold, at which place Tom Sebright 

 was born. Old Sebright was eventually 

 huntsman to the New Forest hounds. Im- 

 parting his instincts to his son, he procured 

 his entry with the Surrey, and from thence he 

 was engaged by Sir Mark Sykes ; but Mr. 

 Osbaldeston discovered his usefulness, and, 

 after serving two apprenticeships under the 

 " Squire's " tuition, was admirably qualified 

 to undertake the duties of huntsman to Earl 

 Fitzwilliam's hounds. Sebright would have 

 proved himself a bad pupil indeed, had he not 

 adopted the practices which Mr. Osbaldeston 

 exemplified with such brilliant success, alike 

 in breeding and hunting the hounds, in both 

 of which, as it is said, he followed the good 

 examples he had so thoroughly studied. His 

 manner in the field was particularly courteous 

 and pleasing. It is a very onerous duty, when 

 it devolves on a huntsman, to caution ambitious 

 spirits from overriding hounds, and it is very 



