CAPT. Johnstone's hounds and country. 227 



half couple of dog hounds. Destiny, a dark bitch 

 by the York and Ainsty Dashwood out of Magic, 

 has capital legs and feet and is a powerful and 

 big bitch. Frantic is very smart, a beautiful 

 colour, and has the lovely head and neck and 

 galloping appearance which is one of the leading 

 attributes of the '' brio^ht Belvoir tan." She is 

 by Lord Willoughby de Broke's Proctor, and is 

 indeed nearly a pure bred Belvoir bitch, for her 

 dam, Fancy, which was sent by Mr. Lane Fox in 

 a draft, is a Belvoir bred one. Fashion, by 

 Tapster out of Fairmaid, is a very pretty bitch 

 with plenty of bone, and looks very like galloping. 

 She has a double cross of Belvoir blood, and her 

 sire, a capital hound in his work, is a son of Mr. 

 Chaplin's famous hound of the same name. But 

 the pick of the bitches are Probity and Sanguine, 

 The former is by Lord Willoughby de Broke's 

 Proctor, a hound Capt. Johnstone speaks very 

 highly of, out of Majesty, of whom more anon. 

 It would be difficult to pick a fault with her, for 

 she is a model of symmetry. She has plenty of 

 size too, and has not that light appearance which 

 is sometimes seen in bitches of very high quality. 

 She has a beautiful head, her neck and shoulders 

 are elegance itself, and with her powerful back 

 and loins, and good legs and feet, she should 

 not only make an useful addition to the pack, 

 but she should be of especial value as a brood 

 bitch in the future. 



