340 Silk and Scarlet, 



a, very remarkable line hunter, he required bitches 

 with plenty of drive, and at one time there were as 

 many as twenty-two couple in the kennel by him. 

 Fifteen and a half couple by him were put up at the 

 first Quorn sale, but the received opinion among 

 huntsmen seems to be that the blood was a little slack 

 with an afternoon fox. His sisters Traffic and 

 Twilight were very good, and he generally got his 

 bitches best and with very great quality. Songstress 

 and Sanguine, from Singwell, were very choice, and 

 Auditor and Albert were among the best of his sons. 

 Sir Richard kept the old dog for seven seasons, and 

 then gave him to Earl Wemyss, who had Albert as 

 well. His lordship had only one left by him ; and he 

 died in his possession. 



Glider, a little, light, even-made hound of about 

 twenty-one inches, and remarkably good in his work, 

 was another of Sir Richard's tenderest fancies latterly. 

 He was by Lumley's Pontiff from his own Gadfly, and 

 in direct descent from Vine Grampian. He got his 

 stock large, and when he had used him pretty freely, 

 he sent him to Berkeley for a season in exchange for 

 their Albert. Ayris was using him at the time of the 

 first Quorn sale, and in the last letter that Sir Richard 

 wrote to the Earl a few days before his death, he 

 reiterated his favourite maxim, ''Put bitches to my 

 Glidery Dairymaid from Dorcas was by him, and 

 formed one of the lot for whom Mr. Richard Sutton 

 gave 200 guineas. Guider by Drake's Duster, from 

 his beautiful bitch Gamesome, was another of his 

 darlings, and so was the hard-running Dexter, and the 

 rare drawer, Hercules, both of whom went to Mr. 

 Morrell's. Then there was Daphne by Dryden 

 (brother to Dexter) from Tuneful, a daughter of 

 Rutland Trouncer, of whose cave exploit we shall tell 

 hereafter ; and Ringwood by Bragela by Chaser, a 

 clipping little hound, and very unlike his leggy red 

 sire Charon. 



