216 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



1853, three years before Mr Drax resigned, down 

 to 1858, when Mr George Wingfield Digby suc- 

 ceeded to the mastership, there were no kennel 

 records kept. During this time a succession of 

 Masters ruled for a short time over the hunt, and 

 the huntsman changed with the advent of each 

 Master, so that it is impossible to say on what 

 lines the hounds were bred. The pack was sold 

 by Mr Drax to Mr G. Whieldon, one of the three 

 men — Captain Stanley and Viscount Dungarvan 

 being the others of the trio — who divided the 

 responsibilities of office between them for the two 

 seasons following Mr Drax's resignation. 



The entries in the first years of Mr George 

 Wingfield Digby's reign show that in a few cases 

 Mr Drax's hounds were bred from, so it is clear 

 that some at least of the old sort had been kept in 

 the country. Mr Drax had started with drafts 

 from the Badminton, Belvoir, and Brocklesby 

 kennels, and he had also drawn largely from the 

 packs of Mr Assheton Smith and Mr Foljambe. 

 A hound named Saucebox (1846), grandson of 

 Lord Portman's Sparkler, and on the dam's side 

 descended from Lord Portman's Spitfire, was much 

 used as a sire by Mr Drax in the closing years 

 of his mastership. Among the seven -year -old 

 hounds in Mr Wingfield Digby's kennels in 1858 

 was Solomon, a son of Saucebox. 



Mr Wingfield Digby depended greatly on drafts, 

 and put on but comparatively few home-bred 

 hounds during his seven years' term of office. To 



