2,66 Silk and Scarlet. 



and in Mr. Smyth Owen's time they found three in 

 one tree at Barton-on-Sales, one of which ran down 

 the inside of the trunk. The Cantlop fox always re- 

 sided in a tree, and Jack Wiglesworth knew almost 

 to a yard where to go to, to whip him down. For five 

 or six seasons, he was always lost near Cantlop Mill, 

 as he went between the mill wheel and the mill, and 

 ran his line back when they were casting forward 

 for Eaton Maskett. The miller honourably kept his 

 secret, but he was worried at last with a trap round 

 his foot, and the country people said that he lifted 

 up the earth, when he was buried, and mourned for 

 him, as an old county worthy with a vested right in a 

 mill. 



Whaddon Chase has produced some rare bob-tails ; 

 and the Brocklesby had their " Bobby," but without a 

 brush at all, and of five years' honest standing before 

 hounds, when they ran into him at last. Probably 

 they would not have done it then, if a footman, who 

 commanded too good a view of the tree of refuge from 

 his pantry window, had not dishonourably peached. 

 The Wing fox was also of great renown, but he fairly 

 beat Mr. Selby Lowndes after some great runs in the 

 second season. They had a check near Cresslow, and 

 lost him in Mr. Drake's country, and they never found 

 him more. Joe Maiden had also several fierce tussles 

 with " The Tiger," who looked like one, as his dark- 

 whiskered form swept out of Huxley Gorse for three 

 seasons. He got quite tired of Joe's assaults at last, 

 and after giving them sixteen miles with two checks 

 through Stapleford Gorse, Tarvin Delamere, and Piele 

 Decoy, he was viewed for the last time under Tarvin 

 Church, and never came back from the Forest. 



Many great foxes retire from an ungrateful country 

 at last, in this fashion, after they have beaten both 

 huntsmen and hounds. Charles Tredwell had a light- 

 coloured friend of this kind, whom he generally found 

 for five seasons at Colthorp or Marston Whin, and 



