3o8 Silk and Scarlet, 



treat he could give Cooper Junior, to let him '' tak 

 Blnecap to lie on iJie bed with thee, if then ^I'oo/dy His 

 glories were also well difiused through the Potteries, 

 as every Tarporley week Mr. Smith Barry used to send 

 the lad a suit with six china buttons, in front ; and a 

 fox, Bluecap, Wanton, Soundwell, Rockwood, and Old 

 Cooper charging a gate with Cheshire Cheese, engraven 

 thereon. 



Cheshire Philip Payne left the Cheshire for Bad- 



Hounds, minton after two seasons, to follow the 

 Seventh Duke, whom he had seen out so often when a 

 pupil at Daresbury near Warrington, and then the 

 next huntsman of note was Will Gaff. He carried no 

 horn during his fifteen seasons, and trusted entirely to 

 his wonderful voice. Will Head found the hounds 

 very wild, but very determined ; and full of the 

 blood of — 



"Those sons of Old Bedford so prized by George Heron." 



This sort was always a great one in Cheshire during 

 that thirty years' mastership, and though they were 

 generally black tan themselves, they went straight 

 back to the red tan Southern Hound. Bedford him- 

 self was descended from Meynell's Splendour and 

 Ramper ; and Gulliver and Grecian, both were badger 

 pyes and of Bedford lineage. Gulliver was at Hey- 

 throp in his thirteenth year, and Jem Hills as well as 

 John Walker bred a great deal from him. His stock 

 were generally dark tan, very high couraged, and as 

 stout as steel, and remarkable for their long sensible- 

 looking heads and large crowns. Victor was another 

 Tact in Finding, ^f the Bedfords, and quite a fugleman to 

 Joe. He would go a icw yards into a 

 cover, and decide at once if there was a fox ; and if 

 there was not, he would sit and triumphantly await 

 the confirmation of his opinion at the huntsman's side. 

 Mr. Villebois' Hannibal, an ambling sulky hound, who 

 never forgave a whip, had the same weird-like tact. 



