232 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



her journey ending two and a half miles farther 

 on, at Milborne Port. She was taken out at 

 Milborne Port station, but no sooner was she 

 on the platform than she snapped her chain 

 and made off. For a day or two she was seen 

 occasionally near the place, but after that was 

 neither seen nor heard of until Mr Guest re- 

 ceived a letter from Mr Frampton saying that 

 Rakish had reappeared at her old kennels. 

 Nothing was ever known of the manner in 

 which she found her way home, a distance of 

 twenty-two miles as the crow flies. 



While hounds often surprise us by their sagacity, 

 we are sometimes astonished at the want of know- 

 ledge of the most rudimentary ideas of sport in 

 those who follow them. An incident that occurred 

 in the Blackmore Yale is an example of this. 

 On a day when scent was catchy a friend of 

 mine saw the hunted fox slip through a gateway. 

 He had scarcely gone when a lady rode up and 

 stopped her horse just in the gateway. My friend 

 consequently went up to the latter and asked her 

 if she would mind moving on into the next fi.eld 

 as she was just on the line. " Oh no," was the 

 sublimely unconscious answer, as the lady looked 

 down first on one side and then on the other of 

 her horse. " I assure you, you are mistaken. I 

 cannot see anything." 



In 1896 the celebrated Brocklesby dog pack 

 was bought by Mr Guest from Lord Lonsdale, and 

 with this blood, which united nearly all the best 



