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never a much better sort, and Will fancied it so much, 

 that he took especial pains twice over to get Trojan 

 sound, when he was lamed in the stifle. Flyer, 

 Warlock, and Prior were the stallion hounds that 

 Clark selected from Badminton the first year (1853), 

 that he came to Tubney, and as the Vale of White 

 Horse is now virtually a Tubney removed, we may 

 pass to the head-quarters of the old Berkshire at 

 once. 



After Mr. Morrell's entry at Jim Tred- Mr. MorreU's 

 well's hand, his hunting fancy was Hounds. 

 fostered to the full during his Eton holidays, by con- 

 stant practice with his father's harriers. The pack 

 originally consisted of fourteen couple of the old 

 Southern breed, and on one occasion they adopted 

 currant jelly tastes of a higher order, and had a buck 

 turned down before them in the presence of half 

 Oxford, on the very Headington Hill, where Mr. 

 MorreU's house now stands, looking down on the grey 

 forest of church and college pinnacles. In 1835 he 

 took the harriers in hand himself, and hunted them for 

 eleven seasons in the country round Oxford, and on 

 Ilsley Downs. Latterly they had immense sport, and 

 not a few of the hardest riding sons of Alma Mater 

 date their earliest chase experiences from the hunting 

 lectures and cheery gallops they had with him after 

 the " straight-backed uns." The pack was principally 

 kept up by drafts from Mr. Drake's, the Heythrop, 

 and the Blackmore Vale (Mr. Yeatman's), and con- 

 sisted at last of twenty-two couple of small fox-hound 

 bitches, and Hannibal, who had a strong touch of the 

 harrier about him, and never failed to set the ladies 

 right at a pinch. In the spring of 1848, Mr. Morrell 

 took from Mr. Morland that old Berkshire country, 

 which Lord Kintore and John Walker had made so 

 famous. Tradition says that five horns are now rust- 

 ing at the bottom of Rosey Brook (in which Henry 

 Harris, to his great delight, got a roll his last season), 



