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the family follows the line of their ancestors in 

 that they are interested in the pursuits of a 

 country gentleman. The date 1821, when the 

 Talbot appears on the arms, was long after the 

 time that that particular breed of hound had 

 proved himself the best of the period for practical 

 use in hunting ; he no doubt was the basis of 

 the breed now known as the foxhound, with the 

 evolution of which the famous Squire of Willey 

 Park, Salop, had much to do. 



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The original painting of Captain F. Forester on 

 Christmas Daisy, by Mr Hayward Hardy, from 

 which the photograph facing this page is taken, 

 is, I venture to say, a very remarkable one. The 

 extraordinary vividness of detail in the photo- 

 graph pays abounding credit to the original. 



It does not often happen that a horse of high- 

 class merit as a racehorse settles down and proves 

 a first-class hunter with perfect manners and is able 

 to look after himself when galloping over a natural 

 country. Christmas Daisy won the Cambridge- 

 shire two years in succession ; previous to this 

 the Doveridge Handicap of 1000 sovereigns. He 



