THE BADMINTON HOUNDS 



kennel huntsman, and he showed me in Vaulter one 

 of the best hounds I have ever looked on. Vaulter, 

 Dexter, and old Gambler at Belvoir represent the 

 highest point of hound-breeding at the present time. 

 Vaulter, which combines the Belvoir Weathergage, 

 grafted on Blankney blood, finds many of his kin 

 at Badminton, for of Blankney blood at its best the 

 Badminton kennel has many strains. Did not 

 Contest come from Lord Henry Bentinck to Bad- 

 minton, and please the eighth Duke greatly by his 

 work ? Of that, however, I have written elsewhere. 

 We have travelled into the present, while of the 

 past there is still much to be said. To that, there- 

 fore, we must turn back. 



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