34^ S'^^k and Scarlet, 



image of the Ringwood that Stubbs painted for 

 Brocklesby, and with somewhat round quarters, which 

 made him rather the harrier, and although good 

 twenty-three, he was mean to those who hke a big 

 hound. In fact, he was quite a multiLm i7i pai'vo, and 

 Will thus summed up his merits in the last sentence 

 of the last letter he ever wrote us : " He was tJie 

 loivest dog I ever saw in my life, with the largest fore 

 rib, combined with a beautiful neck and shoulders, 

 and a pleasing intelligent countenance." Old Will 

 Smith wanted the Belvoir Grappler, and said " Pll 

 give you anytJiing in the keimel for him!' and Will 

 selected Rallywood, in spite of his broken thigh. 

 This exchange was never made, owing to Smith's un- 

 timely death, and Grappler died at Belvoir ; but the 

 negotiations were renewed with young Will Smith, 

 and he sent Rallywood, by whom he had at one time 

 about fourteen couple of working hounds, and got 

 Trouncer in exchange, and then Raglan by Rustic, 

 whom he liked no better. Will was so fond of his 

 prize, when he at last got hold of it, that fifty-three 

 couple of his puppies, from ten couple of " the very 

 best stuff" in the kennel, were sent out in the second 

 season. He came to Belvoir in 185 1, at nine years 

 old, and was worked a whole season, and when he 

 died in 1853, he found a fitting necropolis in the 

 centre of a flower plot, in Weill's garden ; and a red- 

 currant tree now blooms over his remains. 



Raiiywood's Clinker and Chaser were the first of 

 Descendants, j^jg g^^, and raced in their eighth season 

 like greyhounds. Their immense pace they inherited 

 from their dam Caroline, whose dam Toilet added to 

 this quality the knack of being able to go just as fast 

 or as long, in or out of condition. Caroline once 

 found a fox in the woodlands by herself, and went 

 away before the whole pack. Not a hound could 

 catch or gain a yard on her, and she at last ran 

 bang into him alone. Rallywood, Sailor, and Lucifer 



