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CHAPTER IV. 



Thk Rule of Mr. Gi':orge Lank Fox. 



'Of dur l''ox and our Hunt let us sing, — 

 Our Fox of all foxes is king.' — 



Hmifing Sung. 



' Fox shall in Britain's future annals shine.' — 



Byron. 



In the spring' i)t 1848, Charles Treadwell removed with 

 the hounds to Bramham Park, where Mr. George Lane 

 Fox, senr., had I)uilt kennels for his son — kennels which the 

 Bramham Moor have occupied ever since, and which it is 

 to be hoped they will occupy tor many years to come. 

 With the hounds came the ten servants' horses, with saddles, 

 bridles, &c., as they had been sent to Harewood twenty-six 

 years before. The new master was keen, and from the first 

 he was fond of hounds, and in Treadwell he had an admirable 

 mentor. The hounds had gone back a good deal dtiring 

 the few years which preceded Treadwell's arrival at Hare- 

 wood, for scientific hound-breeding was not much in his 

 predecessor's line, and the Earl of Harewood, though a very 

 keen sportsman, was not an enthusiast for houndd^reeding. 

 So that when Treadwell took hold of the pack, he found 

 them, to use his own expressive words, 'all uncles, and 



