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selves sufficient to form an entry for an cstabllsbment which hunts four 

 or five clciys a Avcck. The number of young hounds purchased annually 

 to go to various parts of the continent, and even to tlie East Indies, is 

 very great, although the numhei's exported some few years since far ex- 

 ceeded what are now sent from England : the average price per couple 

 in India is twenty guineas, as I have been informed, upon good autho- 

 rity, by a gentleman who resided in that country for some time, and 

 was in the habit of joining a pack occasionally, in the neighbourhood of 

 Calcutta, which hunted jackals in the same manner as we hunt the fox 

 in England ; he described the sport as a bad imitation of bad cub-hunt- 

 ing. The number sometimes kiUed is very great ; and although the 

 jackal appears to come nearer to the species of the dog than the fox 

 does, yet the hounds never refuse to break him up, but " tear him and 

 eat him" in as good style as if they had killed him from Owston Wood 

 or Charnewood Forest. 



Young hounds, after they have commenced their education, should on 

 no account Avhatever be trusted at exercise, or even when moved out 

 into the paddock, without a sufficient and effective number of persons 

 to attend them, and prevent the possibilitij of their breaking away, or 

 getting into the slightest mischief ; the ice once broken, and then there 

 is an end of all confidence in them, and if the old hounds are taken out 

 along with the puppies to exercise, as is the case in some cocktail 

 establishments, the matter is made a thousand times worse. I once ' 

 knew an instance of a lot of wild yoimg hounds being moved out into a 

 field adjoining the kennel Avhere they were kept, and where a long-tailed 

 black pony was grazing, attended by the feeder a?one; from wantonness 

 one of the hounds bayed at the pony, whicli induced another to do the 

 same, and the pony to declare his approbation or disapprobation by re- 

 peated snortings and caprioles ; the main body concluded it Avas a 

 signal for a rush, when away went the little horse over the fence into 

 the adjoining lane, and away went the hounds full cry, to the dismay of 

 the feeder and the rest of the establishment, who were so suddenly 

 summoned by the music of the pack ; however, to conclude my story, 

 they were not stopped until tb.ey ran the pony five miles, but without 

 any further damage to any of the party excepting sowing the first seeds 

 of irrevocable wildness, whenever an opportunity might offer itself. 



of Mr. Child, the banker, who hunted Oxfordshire many years ; Mr. Child had 

 them from Lord Thanet, who also hunted Oxfordshire when it was a perfectly open 

 country. His lordship was supposed to have been possessed of the best pack of 

 hounds of the day ; he was the breeder of the famous Gallant and Gameboy, t^vo 

 stud hounds, of whom more will be said hereafter, which by a union with two bitches. 

 Vicious and Victory, laid the foundation of Mr. Aleynel's celebrated pack at Quorn- 

 don. When Lord Fitzwilliam purchased the hounds of Mr. Foley and Mr. Crewe, 

 he took them away from Oxfordshire, and Will Dean, who had been first whipper-in, 

 accompanied them as huntsman ; he had been brought up under the famous Will 

 Crane, who, when speaking of Will Dean, used to say, " he would not boast of his 

 own qualifications, but he could say that he had formed the best huntsman in Eng- 

 land." Will Dean was allowed by the eld sportsmen of that day to have been the 

 most agreeable and sensible man who had ever been known in that lino. — Extract of 

 a li'ifer of an old sportsman, ar/ed 90. 



