" Tremulousr 127 



This gentleman was an old acquaintance, and 

 he was often supplied by Mr. Smith with small 

 unentered hounds. Whilst Mr. Smith had the 

 Craven, he had a most perfect very small bitch 

 of his best blood, which he called '^ Tremu- 

 lous." She had been entered, and made steady 

 from hare and other riot, but was found too 

 small for his pack. He therefore offered to 

 give her to Mr. ; but only on condi- 

 tion that he would keep her as long as she 

 lived. This having been promised, she was 

 sent, with the accompanying ''copy of verses,'' 

 to impress the promise on the gentleman's 

 mind. Great was Mr. Smith's mortification 

 when he heard, some time after, that it had 

 failed to do so, and that poor ''Tremulous" 

 had been parted with, for three couples of 



hounds belonging to the Eev.^ J. E , who 



kept a pack in Devonshire, and who was a 

 first-rate judge of a hound. 



