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entitled " Hunting Songs and Sport," says that the 

 hounds and horses were seized by the bailiffs while on 

 the way to meet at Lodge on the Wolds ; but the writer 

 has been unable to verify this statement or to find it said 

 elsewhere. There is also an account of how the hounds 

 were sent to London by train and driven from the station 

 to their town quarters in carts — two couples in a cart — a 

 sight which caused great excitement among the cockneys, 

 as well it might. The writer has not been able to verify 

 this either. 



It has always been said that Mr. Robertson, who 

 hunted a country in Northumberland, gave a thousand 

 guineas for the hounds which cost Lord Suffield thrice 

 that sum ; but in the Sporting Magazine for May 1839 

 it is stated that on the 25th April Lord Suffield's hounds, 

 carriages, and horses were sold at the "Corner" by 

 Messrs. Tattersall and realised the sum of ^5859, 4s. 

 The yard was crammed on that occasion. Some of the 

 horses brought long prices — Grantham, 285 guineas ; 

 Metternich, 275 guineas; Cigar, 225 guineas; Mount- 

 eagle, 210 guineas; Bryan O'Lynn, 210 guineas. Then 

 comes the statement that "the hounds for which Lord 

 Suffield had given 3000 guineas were sold in eight lots, 

 and produced 491 guineas," a very different story from 

 the 1000 guineas Mr. Robertson was reported to have 

 given for them. Nevertheless it appears tolerably cer- 

 tain that the hounds did go north, though at what price 

 it was impossible to say. No surprise need be felt, how- 

 ever, if the true state of the case be that the pack 

 brought only a comparatively small sum. The original 

 amount of 3000 guineas was at the time thought to be 

 somewhat extravagant, especially as there was quite a 

 full complement of old hounds which could not be 

 expected to last more than another season or two ; and 

 as Lord Suffield, not much of a hound man, had them 

 for a single season only, it stands pretty well to reason 



