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young Win Burton is lingering on the outside before 

 he takes his master's hack home, just to see the throw 

 off. He weighed only six stone four when he was 

 fifteen, and died not many months after, of consump- 

 tion, at Quorn. Mr. Smith had his picture painted, 

 and he was wont to say, as he looked at it, year after 

 year, in his room at Tedworth, that he would have 

 given ten thousand to save him. 



Will is represented holding some Mr. Smith's 

 couples, and the dark grey Manager Hound Fancies. 

 looks up wistfully in his face. This was one of the 

 twenty-five inch hounds by whom Mr. Smith swore, 

 and he was so much too fast for the rest of the pack, 

 that although they buckled a shot-belt round his neck, 

 and filled him three parts full of boiled lights, he still 

 defied them and their handicaps. Tom Wingfield 

 hated him, and if he could see him drop back into the 

 second flight with an afternoon fox, he never forgot to 

 mention it. When Mr. Smith bought Lord Foley's, 

 he liked them small, and bred almost entirely from 

 the best, with the exception of using a son of the 

 Fitzwilliam Collier, and going occasionally to Mr. 

 Musters, whose pack he purchased in 18 14, for a 

 change of blood, and killed a brace of foxes with them 

 on the Forest, the first day they went out. Lord 

 Lonsdale's and Lord Althorp's he never sent to, and 

 " the great calves" was the only title he bestowed on 

 the Pytchley, when they were in John Warde's hands. 

 Glorious John returned the compliment with com- 

 pound interest, Avhen he spoke of " the ^^^ suckers," 

 and the " picket-noses" of Quorn, and used a personal 

 simile of undoubted breadth, when he described to a 

 circle of friends at Tattersall's exactly what a hound's 

 nose ought to be. There was hardly a dog-hound at 

 Quorn much beyond twenty-three when Mr. Smith 

 chanced to clash with Lord Lonsdale's in Launde 

 Wood, and Jack Shirley counted twelve of Lord 

 Lonsdale's first away. Many thought that Mr, Smith's 



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