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over the great and striking lesson which his life taught, 



and which his fame sealed. 



^. r u ^^r ^ And so leaving Belvoir, we get back 



Mr. John Warde. , -kt ^.u ,. i,- -r-ri. 



once more to JNortnamptonshire. Jbiity 

 years ago, Mr. John Warde, with Jem Butler and his 

 son Will (so renowned in after years with the Bads- 

 worth and Mr. Foljambe's), might have been seen at 

 Sywell Wood, and if a rate was heard, it was certain 

 to be at the expense of a Charon, or a Cerberus, a 

 Solomon, or some other mythological or scriptural 

 name. Cerberus went back to Mr. Lee Anthony's 

 Clothier ; and the wisdom of Solomon was extended 

 over twenty-six inches. Philip Payne never liked Mr. 

 Warde's hounds, and thought them loose and weak- 

 loined. None could stoop better to a scent, but they 

 had no drive about them ; and fine as the bitches 

 looked, they were rather too heavy, and lost action 

 very early ; looking, so Will Butler used to say, ''good 

 seven, when they were four ^ 

 TheLambton His hounds in the Craven country 

 Hounds. afterwards were of a very different stamp, 

 and it was from his Jasper, Prodigal, and President, 

 that the Lambton pack principally sprang. Under 

 Winter, in 1828, the latter were in their glory, and 

 Sedgefield had become quite a Melton of the North ; 

 but at last they were bred in and in, till there was no 

 music left, and huntsmen began to speak of their legs 

 from a mere tobacco-pipe point of view. Mr. Lambton 

 would never let them be pressed, or allow any one, if 

 he could help it, to be in the same field with them, 

 and hence they fared very ill in Leicestershire with 

 Lord Suffield, though their pace was tremendous when 

 they did get away. Three thousand guineas were 

 given by his lordship for 58^ couple of old, and 20 

 couple of young hounds, and Mr. David Robertson 

 got 47i of them for 750 guineas. In Northumberland, 

 Charles Treadwell got a chance with them at last, and 

 increased his " nose" score from 32 brace to 44J brace 



