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the Duke won't like him.' This turned out to be 

 true, so Furrier was consigned to Quorn " ; and when 

 Osbaldeston took his pack to the Pytchley country 

 in 1829 he had no fewer than twenty-four and a half 

 couples in it by him, and oftentimes he made his 

 whole draft for the day from the progeny of this 

 renowned sire. Furrier ended his days at Brocklesby, 

 having been presented by the Squire to Lord Yar- 

 borough, and the last of his family was one litter at 

 Brocklesby. 



My picture of Mr. Corbet's great Warwickshire 

 Trojan represents a terribly throaty, short-necked 

 hound with very faulty shoulders, which, like his 

 neck and the rest of his forehand, are white. He 

 does not look like being the only hound out of a 

 strong pack who could jump the park wall at Chil- 

 lington, and at " Lord Dartmouth's, near Birmingham." 

 The grey-pied Tarquin, another Warwickshire cele- 

 brity, was an ancestor of the hound that " could 

 do no wrong," the blue-pied Berkeley Cromwell, whose 

 head now hangs in the hall at Berkeley Castle — 

 " the best hound," said old Harry Ayris, " that ever 

 man cheered." Cromwell was got by Lord Henry 

 Bentinck's renowned Contest, whose colour was, ac- 

 cording to Cecil, " a good black, white, and tan " 

 ("Hunting Tours," p. 89). 



Cromwell's blood ran strong in a very great hound 

 of later date whose portrait is now before me. This 

 is Lord Coventry's Rambler (1873), who must always 

 rank as one of the sires of the age. My likeness is 

 an engraving, and shows a lovely, lengthy black, 

 white and tan hound, with absolutely everything 



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