64 OBSERVATIONS ON FOX-HUNTING 



Snap, which were pleasant horses to ride, free at 

 their leaps, but always collected ; with excellent 

 constitutions, fine action, and no tire in them ; 

 they would have thought themselves disgraced to 

 have been dismounted after a twenty minutes 

 burst over any country. When broke, and made 

 handy with hounds, they were turned out for 

 twelve months, and then taken into the hunting 

 stable, to supply the place of the old worn out 

 horses, which time had incapacitated for active 

 service. 



This great sportsman had in consequence a 

 stud of very superior hunters. I cannot say I 

 admired his hounds in kennel ; it was nothing 

 but " Trojan," " Trojan," " Trojan." We always 

 drank, at his hospitable mansion at Sundorn, 

 " to the blood of old Trojan," and yet he did 

 not even know how this famous hound was bred. 

 I was informed he was a stray hound, that either 

 joined the pack hunting, or else came to the 

 kennel by accident. I liked the appearance of 

 Sir Richard Puleston's hounds better than those 

 of his father-in-law, INIr. Corbet ; they were a 

 powerful pack, with a great deal of bone, and 

 very clever. Mr. Corbet himself was extremely 

 popular in Warwickshire, and gave general satis- 

 faction ; his sport was excellent, his natural good 

 temper and condescending manners to every 



