OBSERVATIONS ON FOX-HUNTING 11 



an amusement ? " " Musick," contemptuously 

 echoed Luke, " Aye, — fiddling, IMr. Freeman ? 

 fiddling, — Fiddling, — it's very well for cripples and 

 such like, — poor things ! — I always gives them a 

 halfpenny when I sees them at the fairs." 



When I first commenced keeping Fox-hounds, 

 I was particularly fortimate in getting some good 

 draughts from Tom Grant, his Grace's Huntsman, 

 at the very time Lord Egrcmont (as I said before), 

 gave his Hounds to the Duke of Richmond. His 

 Grace possessed an established pack himself, and 

 the Huntsman being naturally partial to his own 

 sort, many valuable Hounds from Lord Egre- 

 mont's pack were draughted ; they were capital 

 hunters, and turned with a scent as quick as 

 the animal they hunted ; no hounds were stouter, 

 or better equal to a second Fox. The " Jum- 

 pers," the " Sampsons," the " Dromo's," the 

 " Ledger's," all capital ; so much so, that when 

 they were presented to His Majesty to hunt Deer, 

 I thought it a great loss to the sporting world. 

 Mr. Warde, who of course is very justly partial to 

 his own sort, had never any objection to breeding 

 from the Beaufort " Justice," and he is of Lord 

 Egremont's blood, got by the New Forest Jvisticc, 

 and Justice by Mr. Gilbert's Jasper, and Jasper 

 was bred by Lord Egremont. It is almost im- 

 possible for me, who ha\c been so many years 



