128 THE COLOUR OF HOUNDS: THOSE 



very marrow of the famous ducal pack. His white 

 shoulders and nape of neck, breast, and forelegs are 

 very noticeable in the picture, and Will Goodall's 

 memorandum will suffice for further description : 

 " This is a most beautiful little short-legged dog, 

 exceedingly light of bone, but with beautiful legs and 

 feet." "Cecil," who saw his son Rallywood at eleven 

 years old, thus describes him : " His colour is a very 

 rich black, white and tan ; his symmetry is most 

 captivating and perfect. With a splendid intelligent 

 head, well set on a nice clean neck, good shoulders, legs 

 straight as arrows, rare feet, fine back and loins with 

 capital thighs, and rather under than over twenty-three 

 inches in height, he is, in my estimation, as near as 

 possible the perfection of a foxhound." 



My sketch of perhaps the greatest of all sires, 

 Osbaldeston's Furrier, represents him as a black and 

 white hound (a very great deal of white about 

 him), of rather a short-backed type, extraordinarily 

 deep through his heart, and with a very high-set 

 stern. It is a broadside view, so the crookedness 

 which expelled him from Belvoir in 1821 is concealed 

 in the picture. That year " The Squire " wanted more 

 hounds for five days a week with the Quorn, and 

 went to Belvoir for the draft he had secured ; and, 

 writes " Cecil," " Jervis, the feeder, who was an ex- 

 cellent judge, pointed out Furrier, saying he was the 

 best bred hound in the kennel, and descended from 

 Mr. Meynell's Stormer, ' but I don't think his Grace 

 will keep him.' 'Why not?' said the Squire, 'he's 

 the finest-looking hound of the lot.' ' Yes,' replied 

 the feeder, ' but his legs are not quite straight, and 



