228 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



ance a really wonderful one was that at the time 

 he was only a puppy and had been out but some 

 half-dozen times. It was while hounds were cub- 

 hunting in Stalbridge Park that Auditor got 

 away by himself on a fox and killed it at Inwood. 

 Auditor through his sire Warrior (1888) went 

 back to the New Forest Striver, son of Grafton 

 Silence ; and his dam Amabel (1881) was the grand- 

 daughter of Kussian, of whose descent from the 

 two great litters on which the modern pack has 

 been built up I have spoken so often. Another 

 puppy which distinguished itself by a single-handed 

 encounter with a cub was Sapient (1889) by the 

 Hon. Mark Kolle's Bajazet. Sapient met a cub 

 face to face on the ride in Holtham, and as the 

 fox jumped to one side to avoid her, she jumped 

 and caught it by the under part of the body. 

 They both rolled over together, but the hound 

 would not release her hold. Sapient's brother 

 Saracen came to grief in a rush of hounds as they 

 were killing their fox, and broke his shoulder in 

 jumping off one of the big banks under Fifehead. 



A curious incident happened during cub-hunting 

 at Inwood. In the field just outside the wood 

 a young hound named Mayfly, a draft from the 

 Ludlow kennels, got hold of an old dog-fox and 

 was viewed having a desperate fight. Hound 

 and fox stood up on their hind-legs snapping and 

 biting at one another, but with very little noise. 

 At last Mayfly got a firm hold of the fox's nose, 

 and rolling him over, stood shaking him until 



