322 Silk a7id Scarlet, 



Wildair by Yarborough Warrior from Fitzwilllam's 

 Willing (whose dam, Julia, ran into her fox alone 

 in Lady Sparrow's park from Brampton Wood, after 

 eleven hours' cub-hunting) was a great hound with Mr. 

 Conyers ; and so were Tragedy and Madcap, who 

 would neither of them draw a yard, and Joyful 

 by Justice from Primrose. Justice was drafted by 

 John Ward from the Cambridgeshire kennel at three 

 years old, but he cannot remember what for ; and 

 Primrose, like Beauty and Bashful, was of the Lons- 

 dale blood. Beauty goes down to posterity in the 

 portrait with her master ; and for her and Bashful, 

 both of whom he bred himself, he refused a hundred 

 guineas from Mr. Assheton Smith. There is a great 

 deal of the old Lonsdale blood in the present Earl's 

 pack at Tring ; and it was principally obtained by 

 drafts from Charles Payne. 

 ,^. „ ,, , Will Smith, of the Brocklesby, was 



The Brocklesby. ... J , , , i r 



laid to rest lull twelve years beiore we 

 ever sallied forth on our summer ramble for " scarlet" 

 incidents, and many a cheery story of man and hound 

 has gone with him. " Stick to Ranter' was the last 

 kennel injunction he gave to his son Will, as he lay on 

 his death-bed at Barnoldsby ; and it has not been for- 

 gotten, either by him, or his brother Tom. He tried 

 several dashing experiments, which many less ex- 

 perienced huntsmen would not have thought of; on 

 one occasion he clipped a hound, and on another he 

 took out a pack of bitches, all in season. " The nose 

 of Yarborough" had lost none of its fame in his hands, 

 but in obedience to the wishes of the late lord the 

 standard was reduced to twenty-three and a-half for 

 dogs, and twenty-two for bitches. The stallion suc- 

 cession goes back to Dover, in 1786, who traced his 

 lineage through Fitzwilliam Ranger. The original 

 Ranter of 1790 was Dover's son from Red Rose, 

 sister to Ringwood, the hound which Stubbs painted. 

 Fitzwilliam Traitor contributed its Truant, in 1797; 



