1895] PEDIGEEE OF SAFFRON. 301 



The celebrated Saifron (51) is thus described by 

 Lord W. : "A very good-looking- tan dog, and very 

 good in his work. The sire of many hounds in the 

 Duke of Beaufort's, Sir W. W. Wynn's, the Badsworth, the 

 Albrighton, Col. Clowes's, Mr. Garth's, and other kennels." 



We should, of course, have been delighted to have 

 traced many of our hounds through Saffron back to " the 

 Beaufort Justice," the blood to which so many good judges 

 have been so justly partial, but we are afraid that we 

 cannot directly do so, at all events from the materials 

 in our possession, and that " Cecil " has fallen* into an 

 error by confounding two bitches of the same name : 

 Rhapsody (34) and Bhapsody (4:2). Curiously enough 

 there is another Ehapsody (entered in 1832), by Ranter out 

 of Destiny, which does go back through Rocket to " the 

 Beaufort Justice." It shows ujd the mistake of having 

 different hounds in the same kennel by the same names. 



We have not thought it worth while after all to give 

 *' Cecil's " pedigree, in order that the two maybe compared. 

 Justice is oddly entered in the Badminton list : 



Hound. Sire. Dam. 



10 years Justice — New Forest. Justice. Hopeful. 



(Bred by Sir T. Mostyu.) 



It is rather puzzling to know what this means. In a 

 list of Mr. Drake's (1811), which embraces the hounds he 

 bought from Sir T. Mostyn, there are one and a half couples 

 of hounds. 



Jargon 



Jurymau > by New Forest Justice, clam Duchess. 



1 



Judy J 



Lord North takes it that the Beaufort Justice was by 

 the New Forest Justice, out of Hopeful. There is a gap 

 in the Badminton lists, the next being 1744. The Duke 

 of Beaufort's Hoyden was by Sir T. Mostyn's Lictor out 

 of Hasty ; Lictor was by Mr. Meynell's Ranter, by his 

 Ravager ; Hasty was by Mr. Hay's Conqueror out of 

 his Hyale. 



