2 74 Silk and Scarlet, 



came in a draft to Mr. Compton. Jasper still lives in 

 Marshall's picture which was engraved in 1803, and 

 represents Tom Sebright's father in his scarlet and 

 green collar, gazing most affectionately at him over 

 the half-door. Lord Egremont's Justice sort were 

 generally about twenty-four inches, and very thick 

 headed, and the cross between them and the Fitz- 

 william draughts produced lighter and more airy 

 hounds, and losing the original head. Twelve were 

 entered in one litter by Justice from Lightning ; and 

 Colonel Wyndham and his brother divided them. 

 The Colonel also got a very good cross between the 

 Rutland Chanticleer and his Richmond and Fitz- 

 william blood, and when the brothers gave up, they 

 sold twenty-five couple of bitches (fifteen of them 

 spayed) to Sir Henry Oxendon in Kent, but the 

 latter squared out and got so much flesh over the 

 muscles, that no work could keep them poor. 



Justice's grandsons, Justice, Jason, and Jerker were 

 all very great in the New Forest in 181 5. Neither of 

 the last two had the substance of Justice, who was of 

 immense bone, and as Mr. Nichol was wont to say of 

 him " as big as a deer." This eccentric master used 

 to go to Sir Thomas Mostyn's kennel for a cross, and 

 loved his Wrangler and Fleecer right well ; but it 

 was through Sir Thomas's Justice (by the New Forest 

 Justice from his own Hopeful), who went there as an 

 unentered draft in 18 12, that the Justice blood was 

 first introduced at Badminton. Philip Payne's draft 

 came to Mr. Nichol for years, but both his hound- 

 breeding and hunting, well as he understood them, 

 were conducted on a very rough principle ; and 

 digging a whole afternoon, fifteen feet after a fox 

 with his black tan terriers, was the style of thing he 

 liked best. This, however, was of rare occurrence, as 

 the foxes used to breed in the morasses among the 

 alder-stools, and lay curled up there till the hounds, 

 who soon got as black as ink, drew right up to them ; 



