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fancied because I had such stout hard workers 

 by Lord Portsmouth's Render. But he is not a 

 stallion hound, too tall and bad about the knees, 

 though a nice-looking hound in the field. The 

 young Renders work hard in the field, and some 

 of them are good-looking. Lord Galway's Clasher 

 has done pretty well for me. I send you one of 

 my hound books, you will see how much Belvoir 

 blood I have. You will observe that my book 

 begins when Charles Treadwell came to this pack, 

 when the hounds were in Lord Harewood's pos- 

 session. He had to begin with a pack bad in 

 work and appearance, all bred in and in, no lists 

 kept. Treadwell had a good store of hound know- 

 ledge in his head, and was a keen man. In my 

 early days I was advised entirely by him." 



Another letter of condolence which caught our 

 eye as we looked through some fifty of them was 

 from the Hon. H. H. Molyneux. "I am very 

 sorry for you also for ourselves. It is very hard 

 lines to be knocked out in that way. Confound 

 that driving unicorn ! ' A cobbler should stick to 

 his last,' they say, and a huntsman, I suppose, to 

 his saddle. You must keep yourself patient, and 

 watch your diet well. Going from jolly hard 

 exercise to a sick bed for so horrid a long time, 

 does come a bit unfair on one's stomach." 



As might be expected, Frank threw away his 

 lame leg at the earliest possible moment, and as 

 soon as ever he could bear a legging on it, ordered 

 out the easiest horse he had in the stable, old 

 Sluggard the gray, and hacked gently about for an 



