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old Duke, a black-and-tan, fetched two guineas below 

 that sum. He was bought from Captain Barclay, 

 and begot another Duke still more famous than him- 

 self, from Helen. She was also the dam of Young 

 Regent, a black, white, and tan, which joined the 

 Bretby kennel at 72 gs.; and his lordship did not 

 grudge 60 gs. for Crop, although one of her ears had 

 been gnawed off in puppyhood by a ferret. Lord 

 Lovat's, Sir A. G. Gordon's and Captain Gordon's 

 of Cluny dogs have been the only crosses used for 

 some time past at Gordon Castle. Sailor's beauti- 

 ful scull caught us at once, and Jubb might well say 

 that "he knows everything/' Dash lay dignified and 

 apart during the revels, and there was no passing by 

 Young Dash and the neat Princess by Rock from 

 Belle. A dozen pups by a dog of Lord Lovaf s, also 

 of the Gordon Castle breed, were out at quarters 

 drawing nurture from terriers and collies. 



From the setters we passed on to a half-grown 

 litter of deer-hound puppies, some of them rather 

 too light in colour for the hill, and not of the ortho- 

 dox badger-grey of Gruin (" Hold him"), who was 

 keeping company with a bloodhound, and three fox- 

 hounds, which enjoy roe deer amazingly after their 

 Wiltshire toils. There were one or two retrievers, 

 which brought back the story of the country keeper, 

 who whispered confidentially to a friend at TattersalFs, 

 " I intend to buy them three dogs if I give afi-pun-note 

 for them" and saw them knocked down at precisely 

 the same average as the setters. A dozen terriers of 



