98 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



had a wonderfully quick eye to hounds, and was 

 so clever in picking them up that although he 

 often did not start from home till midday, he 

 generally came in for the afternoon's sport. I 

 have known him, though, so late in coming out 

 that hounds had gone home before he appeared. 

 He would then have his gallop without them, 

 and many is the steeplechase across country I 

 have had with him. General Astell on Rat-tail 

 was at one time almost invincible ; and the Hon. 

 Mrs Bertie on her beautiful Robin, and Lady 

 Theodora Grosvenor, were hard to beat anywhere. 

 Mr Digby Collins with his rare hands and seat 

 was another whom it was a pleasure to watch. 

 He was, and still is, in great requisition as a 

 judge, for few men know more about a horse 

 than he does. Lord Howth, also a hard rider, 

 stopped at nothing ; and when he was mounted 

 on his favourite, the Ghost, he was as difficult 

 to catch a glimpse of as if the phantom name 

 applied to him. 



Captain Fife, the founder of the Compton 

 Stud, was equally good over a country or between 

 the flags. It was 1884, the year in which Sir 

 Richard Glyn gave up the B. V. Hounds, that saw 

 the birth of the Compton Stud. It was started at 

 Sherborne, but was afterwards removed to Sandley, 

 near Gillingham, in Dorset. The two well-known 

 hunter sires, King Crafty and Master Ned, with 

 which the Compton Stud started, were on the 

 second year joined by the good horse Huguenot, 



