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beautiful bitch, but, unfortunately, she has never 

 had a litter of puppies ; Scornful, by Bramham 

 Smoker out of Marchioness, a cleanly bitch with 

 nice neck and shoulders ; and Noble, by Lord 

 Middleton's Nimrod out of Songstress, an active 

 bitch with a lot of dash. A one-season hunter. 

 Fugleman, by the Bramham Fugleman out of 

 Mindful, is a gay hound, and should grow into 

 something out of the common if he is lucky. 



Capt. Johnstone's hounds had a remarkable 

 run in April, 1885. It was the last day of the 

 season, and they had drawn all day without 

 finding-. At five o'clock, however, they found 

 one of the right sort in a small spinney near 

 Dalby Warren, and they rattled him along at a 

 merry pace by Robin Hood's Bay and Little 

 Beck and past Newton House, over the cream of 

 the Eskdale country to ground in the cliff at the 

 south of Whitby. This gallant fox would un- 

 doubtedly have yielded up his brush had not 

 approaching darkness helped him. The hounds, 

 too, Avere without the assistance of the huntsman 

 and whip, who with the rest of the field were 

 beaten off", and Mr. Mitchelson, who had been 

 ' alone in liis glory ' for some time, got the hounds 

 gathered together, and set out on his long ride 

 home in a pouring rain. At eleven o'clock he 

 found himself something like twenty-five miles 

 from the kennels, so wisely put up at a hospitable 

 farm-house, where tired horse and hounds 



