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enough to rub off the impression left by his legs, which 

 had become crooked from being tied up at quarters. 

 It was not, in fact, until February that he came, by a 

 sudden impulse, out of the ruck, with Heedless, another 

 draft bitch, and leading the pack by ten yards, neck 

 and neck, over Garthorpe Lings, brought that renowned 

 fox, " Perpetual Motion," to book at last. He was a 

 black-and-white twenty-four-inch hound, high on the 

 leg, very stout, and a hard runner, but not a great line- 

 hunter. The latter was his sister Frantic's great forte. 

 She came in a draft to the Southwold, when at barely 

 thrce-and-tvventy, John Walker commenced his career 

 as huntsman under Mr. Pelham ; and she went 

 back to Brocklesby, after she had a litter to their 

 Minister. 



The Descendants At onc time " The Squirc" had forty 

 of Furrier. couple of light and smart, but sadly mute, 

 bitches in the Quorn kennel ; and he took at least half 

 of them with him to Northamptonshire, and showed 

 wonderful sport for his first two seasons. In 1831 he 

 had twenty-six couple of them at Brixworth ; and 

 there were about ten or twelve couple of them in the 

 seventy which Mr. Harvey Combe bought from him in 

 1835. Castor, Flasher, and Random were very noted 

 Furrier dogs ; and Mr. Parry had eight or nine very 

 choice bitches by them in a draft from Will Todd, 

 who hunted Mr. Combe's for the six seasons they were 

 at Ricksmansworth. The Pilgrims and Rummagers — 

 the one with their long, solemn heads, and the others 

 all gaiety — were among the " Osbaldestons" which 

 clustered round Dick Simpson of the Puckeridge on 

 his rare crooked-kneed Struggles ; and knew the 

 cunning notes of that horn, which Will Rose always 

 vowed that he blew to pieces one day, whereas Dick 

 solemnly declares to us that York fell on that side 

 near Reed Wood, and stove it in. There were scarcely 

 seven couple of Castors left when Mr. Combe's pack 

 were put up at Tattersall's, in the July of 1840 ; and 



