34^ Silk and Scarlet, 



if he's straigJit ; if he is I'll have him, if I get first 

 pick.*' Jack shook his head after the inspection, and 

 said, ^' He II never come to Qiwrn, Sir Richai'd ;*' and 

 so it proved, as Will Goodall worked him six seasons, 

 and then Lord Henry's, Sir Watkin's, and Mr. Devon- 

 port's kennels used him. It was always said that he 

 carried the scent across some dry fallows that day, 

 near Clawson Thorns, and Will never failed to point 

 him out to Jack when he came to the kennel, with — 

 " There, my lad, that's the dog that killed your fox for 

 you ; you wont hxve him ; I'll keep him to show me 

 the road into some of your country'.' 



Trouncer '^^^ Pytchley bred a good deal from 



Trouncer by Trimmer, who was one of 

 the most intelligent hounds that ever drew a cover. 

 One day the Duke's had had a capital run from 

 Croxton Park, and they then went for an afternoon fox 

 to Melton Spinney, and ran up wind, twelve miles, to 

 Belvoir. Will was left alone when he got there, and 

 he had quite lost the hounds, after vainly trying to 

 track them on the rides. The present Lord Scar- 

 borough and Mr. Drummond were the first to come 

 down from the Castle, when they heard his horn ; 

 and then Trouncer opened in reply on the top of 

 Blackberry Hill. When Will spoke to him, he can- 

 tered away and waved his stern, and looked over 

 his shoulder at him, to bring him along till he guided 

 him to a cave, under the hill, where a fire had been 

 lighted for tea parties in summer. There were the 

 pack as black as sweeps, from their vain efforts to get 

 up the chimney after the fox ; and Will had to dis- 

 lodge it as he could. All Trouncer's descendants were 

 full at head, and one of them, Destitute by Sutton's 

 Dryden, from Tuneful, one December night, when 

 it was almost dark, jumped the Croxton Park wall 

 with the body of the hounds, and turning to the left, 

 while the whole of the others flashed to the right, 

 killed her fox by herself. Dryden did the kennel 



