HUNTING TOURS. 40.9 



them all." The same may be applied to the 

 huntsmen, and without making invidious com- 

 parisons it would be extremely difficult to 

 find another example where the same associa- 

 tions exist between landlord, tenants, hounds, 

 and huntsmen, as they do at Brocklesby, 



A hound called Wonder is in the list for 

 1770, remarkable for the conspicuous position 

 assigned to him in a painting by Stubbs of 

 the two Tom Smiths, father and son, worthy 

 veterans of the couples who had for so very 

 many years enlivened the then heathery 

 wastes of Lincolnshire with their cheery 

 voices, and whose descendants have till the 

 present date held similar appointments, the 

 five having their likenesses portrayed on 

 canvass, affording pleasing retrospections of 

 the past. The costume of the ancient hunts- 

 man and whipper-in is remarkably consistent 

 with modern fashion. Long-waisted, easy 

 fitting coats, with black boots, quite in 

 accordance with present tastes, and yet in 

 these antique representations their date is 

 unmistakably delineated. 



For several years nothing very remarkable 

 appears to have happened ; the Brocklesby 

 seem to have kept on in the even tenor of 



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