10 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



went, he at last released him, and induced him to 

 put his nose down. After a few moments Trojan 

 gave a whimper, and lashing his sides with his 

 stern, started full cry through the gorse. The 

 rest of the pack joined in, and pushing their fox 

 out handsomely, a capital run followed. After 

 this the Prince and Mr Butler became fast 

 friends, and the latter was often invited to 

 Critchell. 



It is said, though for this I have not my father's 

 authority, that one day when the Prince invited 

 Mr Butler to dine with him on the following 

 Sunday, he received the unceremonious rejoinder, 

 " Well, your Boyal Highness, Sunday is a bad day 

 to ask a parson to dine. If your Royal Highness 

 will make it Monday, I will come with pleasure." 

 The suggestion was taken in good part, and the 

 dinner was fixed for Monday. 



Another story of the way in which Mr Butler 

 came to the assistance of the Prince, my father 

 was very fond of narrating. The Prince's hounds 

 had many times found a fox in a particular 

 covert, from which he always took the same 

 line, and saved himself in the main earths some 

 miles away. One night after they had had one 

 of these runs Mr Butler was dining at Critchell, 

 and he suggested that the next time hounds 

 met for this covert he should take two couples 

 of the fastest hounds in the pack, and go to 

 a shepherd's hut he had noticed about half-way 

 between the covert and the main earths. The 



