408 HUNTING TOURS. 



This afforded him an opportunity to hang 

 up his horn for a time and contemplate past 

 events ; when he returned to Lord Southamp- 

 ton; but was called away by the late Lord 

 Yarborough with whom he remained six 

 seasons till the spring of 1862, at which 

 period Tocock was appointed as hereafter 

 mentioned. 



This little history identifies the Smiths as 

 huntsmen to the Brocklesby hounds, with an 

 interval of only one brief season, the unpre- 

 cedented term of more than a century and a 

 half. The restoration of the family, I feel 

 assured I may venture to state, is greatly to 

 the satisfaction of Lord Yarborough and the 

 tenantry, with all of whom reminiscences of 

 the past are observed with pride and the 

 utmost veneration and respect. It is now 

 most earnestly to be hoped that very many 

 more generations will in due time spring up 

 and sustain the fame their forefathers have so 

 emphatically established. It is related that 

 Doctor Buckland, when once on a visit at 

 Brocklesby, observing the high character of 

 the tenantry, asked Lord Yarborough where 

 he got all his good tenants from. " Oh," 

 said his lordship " I don't get them, I breed 



