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In the eighties : Nichols's Triumph and Invincible, Bird's Hebe, 

 Beaufoy's Nestor, the writer's Bono, Beckford, Brevity Barnaby, 

 Babette, and Beeswing, Clayton's Luath XL, Wright's Hector II., 

 Homfray's Nell Gwynne, Cousen's Cromwell, Craven's Dandy and 

 Chesterton Duchess, Hill's Tantrums, and Tinker's Darby. Of 

 these the best were Triumph, Hebe, Nestor, Bono, Beckford, 

 Brevity, Nell Gwynne, Cromwell, and Tantrums. 



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FIG. 31. MR. EDWIN BROUGH'S BLOODHOUND BURGUNDY. 



Since then the most noted hounds have been the writer's Bur- 

 gundy, Bardolph, Belinda, Banner, Baretta, Brunhilda, Barbarossa, 

 Benedicta, Betula, Babbo 96, Boscobel 96, Brocade, and Bettina, 

 Craven's Clara and Constance, Bowker's Boadicea and Berengaria, 

 Lee's Harlequin, Whittle's Diana of Hayes, Heydon's South Carolina, 

 Croxton-Smith's Panther and Wandle Welcome, Mangin's Hordle 

 Hercules and Hordle Niobe. 



Burgundy (Fig. 31) is considered by his owner to have been the 

 best Bloodhound he has ever seen, and his brother Bardolph was not 



