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from Captain Johnstone's kennel, and that 

 gentleman is so much pleased with what he has 

 seen of her performances that he would like to 

 have her back. Genial by Belvoir Glancer out of 

 Lord Yarborough's Rompish is an active smart 

 bitch, and is very persevering with a cold scent. 



The best nosed hound in the pack is Gratitude, 

 by Lord Middleton's Gallant, out of Captain 

 Johnstone's Rantipede. She has a very peculiar 

 note, and Sir Charles informed us that to her 

 fine nose and painstaking, he is indebted for 

 a successful termination to many a run. 



Welcome, by Lord Yarborough's Weathergage, 

 out of his Rantipole, is a well made hound, with 

 good shoulders and galloping quarters. She is 

 one of those very few instances of hounds enter- 

 ing at once. She took to hunting the first day 

 she was out, mixing with the lot, and working 

 like an old one, and before the day Avas done, she 

 fairly raced out of the pack and led them till the 

 finish. 



Sir Charles Legard hunts his own hounds and 

 is a steady painstaking huntsman, and deservedly 

 popular with the farmers over whose land he hunts. 



In the spring of 1888 he commenced to 

 form a pack of otter hounds. There had been 

 otters constantly seen in the Rye, the Derwent, 

 and their tributaries, and occasionally a pack of 

 otter hounds had come from a distance to hunt 

 them. But Sir Charles thought that with an 



