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a Study. In a conversation I had with 

 that exquisite judge of hounds, Mr Fol- 

 jambe, a few years before his death, he 

 asked me, ** Which I considered the most 

 perfect hound on the flags I had ever seen 

 in the course of my visits to so many 

 kennels of high repute ?" I repHed, " The 

 Duke of Rutland's Render." '' He is the 

 cleverest hound I ever examined," was 

 Mr Foljambe's rejoinder. Render has 

 numerous descendants in these and other 

 kennels ; indeed, his services have been 

 extensively dispersed. Destitute, their 

 dam, was entered in 1854, and was able 

 to do her part in accounting for her fox to 

 a good old age, a rare proof of constitution ; 

 and in 1857 she had a son and two daugh- 

 ters doing duty with her in the pack. She 

 continued to contribute, as a matron, till 

 1 862, when the last of her produce. Senator, 

 Singwell, and Susan, were entered. Her 

 dam, Tuneful, was a daughter of Trouncer 



