HUNTING TOURS. 257 



GS. 



Black Doctor, black, Mr. Duncombe . .105 



Sky Lark, brown mare, Sir F. Johnstone . . 310 



Broadgauge, bay gelding, Mr. Pott . .105 



Beauty, bay mare. Captain Marryatt . . 65 



Mr. Clowes has entered the list of 

 M. F. H.'s under most inspiring* auspices, 

 and let us hope that his mastership will be 

 as permanent and prosperous as that of any 

 of his predecessors. On the Tuesday previous 

 to the sale of Lord Stamford's stud, Jack 

 Goddard entered on his new engagement, 

 and took charge of the hounds, they having 

 been transferred to Mr. Clowes for the valu- 

 able consideration of 2,000 guineas, and he 

 is fortunate in having secured them. The 

 breaking up of an established pack of fox- 

 hounds is an event of far more serious import 

 than casual observers are wont to contem- 

 plate. Hounds of superior pretensions, when 

 taken from their old associates and introduced 

 to fresh ones, not unfrequently display cha- 

 racters quite the reverse to those whereby 

 they gained their fame. Difference of country 

 will, in some instances, produce this change 

 of manners, and different management often 

 exercises still more powerful influences. Many 

 a slow, close hunting hound, whose melodious 



