116 EXTENSIVE BREEDERS OF HOUNDS. 



Are well repaid, if mighty George approve. 



So model thou thy pack, if honour touch 



Thy generous soul, and the world's just applause. 



But, above all, take heed, nor mix thy hounds 



Of different kinds ; discordant sounds shall grate 



Thy ears offended, and a lagging line 



Of babbling curs disgrace thy broken pack." 



The most extensive breeders of hounds of the present 

 day are the Dukes of Rutland and Beaufort, the Earls 

 of Yarborough and Fitzwilliam,* Lord Segrave, Lord 

 Lonsdale, Mr. Foljambe, Sir Tatton Sykes, Mr. Hodg- 

 son and the master of the Cheshire hounds ; numerous 

 other noblemen and gentlemen depend upon the 

 produce of their own kennel for the rising generation ; 

 but the number of puppies put out to quarters is by 

 no means so great, and consequently the annual draft 

 from them are not of themselves sufficient to form an 

 entry for an establishment which hunts four or five 

 days a week. The number of young hounds purchased 

 annually to go to various parts of the Continent, and 

 even to the East Indies, is very great, although the 

 numbers exported some few years since far exceeded 

 what are now sent from England : the average price 



• The Earl of Fitzwilliam's hounds are descended directly from that pack 

 purchased from Mr. Foley and Mr. Crewe, (afterwards Lord Crewe) who bought 

 them of Mr. Child the banker, who hunted Oxfordshire many years; Mr. Child 

 had them from Lord Thanet, who also hunted Oxfordshire when it was a perfectly 

 open country, his lordship was supposed to have been possessed of the best pack of 

 hounds of the day, he was the breeder of the famous Gallant and Gameboy, two stud 

 hounds, of whom more will be said hereafter, which by a union with two bitches, 

 Vicious and Victory, laid the foundation of ]Mr. Meynell's celebrated pack at 

 Quoindon. When Lord Fitzwilliam purchased the hounds of Mr. Foley and Mr. 

 Crewe, he took then away from Oxfordshire, and Will. Dean, who had been first 

 whipper-in, accompanied them as huntsman ; he had been brought up under the 

 famous Will. Crane, who when speaking of Will. Dean, used to sav, " he 

 would not boast of his own qualifications, but he could say that he had formed 

 the best huntsman in England." Will. Dean was allowed by the old sportsmen 

 of that day to have been the most agreeable and sensil.le man who had ever been 

 known in that line, — Extract from Utter of an old spartsinan, aged 90, 



