. Fifty years' fox-hunting with the Grafton and other packs of hounds. s Grace the fifth Duke of Graftonand the Earl of Euston in May, 1862. Lord Southampton sold the whole pack to thelate Mr. Selby-Lowndes, of Whaddon Hall. Thedog hounds were sent by that gentleman toTattersalls and were sold by auction, four couplesof them returning to the old country to keep theFurrier blood in the kennel. The Duke appointed Frank Beers to be hunts-man, and the country was without hounds untilthe late Lord Penrhyn came to the rescue andtelegraphed to his friend Sir John Johnson, BuyHills hounds ! Sir John a
. Fifty years' fox-hunting with the Grafton and other packs of hounds. s Grace the fifth Duke of Graftonand the Earl of Euston in May, 1862. Lord Southampton sold the whole pack to thelate Mr. Selby-Lowndes, of Whaddon Hall. Thedog hounds were sent by that gentleman toTattersalls and were sold by auction, four couplesof them returning to the old country to keep theFurrier blood in the kennel. The Duke appointed Frank Beers to be hunts-man, and the country was without hounds untilthe late Lord Penrhyn came to the rescue andtelegraphed to his friend Sir John Johnson, BuyHills hounds ! Sir John acted accordingly,and Lord Penrhyn wrote to the Duke begginghis Graces acceptance of the hounds. TheDuke readily accepted this handsome offer onbehalf of the country. With these four couplesabove-mentioned, and some young hounds fromMr. Drakes, the pack was formed, and thepresent pack at Paulerspury is descended fromthem. Through the kindness of the present Lord South-ampton I am able, at the eleventh hour, to includetwo additional illustrations, which cannot fail to. Q< George Beers, Huntsman. 8i possess great interest for the readers of this are portraits of two of the most famous houndspossessed by the late Lord Southampton duringthe time his lordship hunted the Quorn andGrafton countries. As they were hounds of greatmerit in the field, and of such famous strains ofbreeding, such memories as the elapse of timepermit me to gather up regarding them may beinteresting to some of my readers. The portraitsare taken from original pictures, painted for thelate Lord Southampton, and by him given toGeorge Beers during the time the latter huntedthe Grafton pack at Whittlebury. Beers was alsowhipping-in at Quorn during Hazards huntingcareer at Melton. The present Lord Southampton was verypleased to obtain these two pictures by pur-chase, and of course he greatly prizes them onhis fathers account. Hazard.—This noble hound was bred by theMarquis of Tavistock, and was entered
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