THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



Payne also borrowed Nectar, a black-and-tan with 

 high peak, long head, and heavy, throaty neck. Like 

 a bloodhound in every respect, save that he had the 

 best of legs and feet. This cross was a great success, 

 and the result was Badminton Nectar. This dog 

 inherited the bloodhound type of head, and was 

 coarse and heavy, but was full of hunt and had a 

 splendid constitution. " At walk," the Druid tells us, 

 " he persecuted the hares day and night, but never 

 showed any unsteadiness with a fox. He ran for 

 eleven seasons ; and even when he was past all use 

 in every way, he rode twice a year to the Heythrop 

 kennels, on the baggage-waggon, for a treat, and 

 wandered about with a perfect ticket of leave into 

 the kitchen, or wherever he liked to go." 



Another hound, that brought in valuable strains of 

 blood from Cheshire and Sir T. Mostyn, was Dori- 

 mont, a granddaughter of which was Echo by Boxer 

 by Dorimont. The picture of this hound gives a 

 good idea of the type that Payne left in the 

 Badminton kennels, which his successor Long 

 slightly modified. The point that strikes me, when 

 I look at the picture of Echo, is her resemblance 

 to the Heythrop bitches as I recollect them in my 

 Oxford days. I consider this picture painted by 

 Willis as giving a capital illustration of the inter- 

 mediate stage of the foxhound when it still lacked 

 the perfect shape and rare quality of our time. 

 Echo would be called a little throaty by our 

 modern huntsmen, but she evidently had great 



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