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came from Mr. Poyntz. Some foxes had been 

 bred in a drain which ran under the drawing- 

 room, so they found directly. It was a very 

 sunny day, but they had a straight Spanker. 

 twelve miles to ground at Chilton Wood, and 

 they did not dig. Spanker remained with 

 the fox. On the fifth day after the run, as 

 he had not returned to the kennel, Will Bi^s 

 called on Mr. Terry, and, setting out together 

 in search, they found Spanker alive at the 

 earth, with the dead fox between his paws. 

 This staunch hound was kept at Dummer 

 until he recovered, and he then ran for one or 

 two seasons with the new pack which came to 

 the Vine from the Duke of Richmond. 



Mr. Chute was a wonderfully good kennel 

 huntsman ; his hounds were renowned for 

 their great strength and their good noses, and 

 he always bred them for those two qualities. 

 His kennel, however, appears to have been 

 useful rather than ornamental, for in Mr. 

 George Tattersall's able work, entitled " Sport- 

 ing Architecture," there is a notice of it. He 

 says : " Where was a more miserable hole in 

 the shape of a kennel for fox-hounds, than that 

 in which the Vine pack was lodged in the late 

 Mr. Chute's time, and yet I never saw hounds 

 freer from disease, nor able to stand their 



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