. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. ed towalk about your bouse this summer, will make you aclever bitch ; further, shes of Grace Graftons kind,as her father was got by his Graces Toucher, andbred by Mr. Pelham. Blood imdeniable, at a cer-taintij. As to yr dam of her, shes of my old sort,and a bitch of blood and merit. The other bitch Ibred also, to ye best of my judgment, from a dog ofPelhams. I call her handsome in my eye, andnot far off being a beauty. Her dam was got byNoels famous Maltster, out of a daughter of , of Sundorn, named Trojan. I wish youluck and succes
. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. ed towalk about your bouse this summer, will make you aclever bitch ; further, shes of Grace Graftons kind,as her father was got by his Graces Toucher, andbred by Mr. Pelham. Blood imdeniable, at a cer-taintij. As to yr dam of her, shes of my old sort,and a bitch of blood and merit. The other bitch Ibred also, to ye best of my judgment, from a dog ofPelhams. I call her handsome in my eye, andnot far off being a beauty. Her dam was got byNoels famous Maltster, out of a daughter of , of Sundorn, named Trojan. I wish youluck and success with your hounds, and when I canserve you to effect, at any time, you may rely on myfaithful remembrance of remain, dear sir, Your very humble servant, G. Forester. 92 THE WILLEY KEXNELS. —The largest bitch is named Musick, thelesser is named Gaudy. —We haye had good sport lately; and oneparticular run we had, upon Monday last, of twohours and one quarter (from scent to view), withoutone single interruption of any kind Savory. CHAPTER YIII. THE WILLEY LONG RUNS. The Willey Long Eons—Dibdins Fifty Miles no Figure of Speech—From the Clee Hills to the Wrekin—The Squires Breakfast—Phoebe Higgs—Doggrel Ditties—Old Tinker—MoodysHorse falls Dead—Eun by Moonlight. Ye that remember well old Savorys call,With pleasure viewd her, as she pleased you all;In distant countries still her fame resounds,The huntsmens glory and the pride of The portrait at the head of this chapter is from acarefully drawn copy of a painting at Willey of a 94 THE WILLEY LONG RUNS. favourite hound of tlie Squires, just a hundredyears ago. Dibdin, in his song of Tom Moody, speaks of acountry well known to him fifty miles round;and this was no mere figure of speech, as the hunt-ing ground of the Willey Squire extended over thegreater part of the forest lands we have were fewer packs of hounds in Shropshirethen, and the Squire had a clear fiel
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