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' noble science,' and such a pack of hounds, 

 added all that I cared for to the pleasure. 



After breakfast Gillard gave me a most instruc- 

 tive and agreeable morning on the flags. Hunting 

 all my life with hounds descended from these 

 kennels I could refer back to many of the old 

 hounds which were there before Gillard's time. 

 You see in the Belvoir Kennel a feature not to be 

 noticed in any kennel I have visited, namely, 

 uniformity of character, quality, colour, and 

 symmetry which is not to be equalled. A list of 

 62J couples of hounds shewed five couples only 

 immediately related to another pack. 



I made the remark to Gillard that I thought he 

 must be much puzzled to know where to go for a 

 change of blood, without losing the class of his 

 own. To shew that there was something in this 

 a novice like myself was able to pick out three 

 bitches, before we had gone a quarter of a mile, 

 which were of a different character and colour from 

 the rest of the pack. Gillard remarked : " Those 

 are all the strange blood I^ have besides one dog 

 in the entry." Anyone referring to the list of 

 1887 will find that this was so. 



I returned home in the evening greatly pleased, 

 and was then able to compare notes with Frank 

 Beers, who always thought so highly of the 



