218 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



From this union no less than four couples were 

 entered in 1868, and the litter, which seems to 

 have been an extraordinarily good one, may be said 

 to have laid the foundation of the modern pack. 

 Another litter of Sir K Glyn's entry in 1867 left 

 its lasting influence in the kennel. This was one 

 of two couples by Lord Portsmouth's Commodore 

 ex Mr Villebois' Matchless (1863), to which many 

 of the best hounds of later date strain back. In 

 1866 yet another good litter of two and a half 

 couples had been put on by Lord Poltimore's 

 Warrior ex Mr Yillebois' Matchless, and from 

 one or other of these unions sprang some of the 

 most noted families of the kennel. Matchless 

 had come to Sir Richard Glyn in 1865 among 

 four and a half couples that he had bought at 

 Mr Villebois' sale. She was by Mr Villebois' 

 Marmion ex his Willing, and was only second 

 to Ruby in the influence she had on the pack. 



On his retirement in 1865 Mr Digby presented 

 his hounds and the whole of his hunting establish- 

 ment to Sir Richard Glyn, and, as I have said, his 

 incomparable huntsman, John Press, remained on 

 when the new Master took up the reins. Mr 

 Digby liked big hounds, and only those that had 

 pace and stamina could satisfy his love of a gallop 

 over the Vale. Sir Richard Glyn kept to the same 

 standard, but he and his huntsman went in more 



Vauban, a son of his out of a home-bred hound, was one of a lot of 

 three couples purchased from Lord Poltimore's kennels by Major 

 Brown in 1870 for four hundred guineas. 



