42 THE QUORN HUNT, 



Besides those bred at the Quorn kennels 

 by Lord Stamford for the next season's 

 entry, he procured an unentered draft from 

 Sir W. W. Wynn's, among which were 

 two couples descended from the Duke of 

 Beaufort's Harlequin, and several others 

 by sires from the Duke of Rutland's and 

 Lord Yarborough's kennels. Of their own 

 breeding, six couples were the progeny of 

 the Worcestershire Sportsman, whose ex- 

 cellent parentage can scarcely fail to per- 

 petuate many valuable properties. Sports- 

 man was a son of the Warwickshire Saffron, 

 a hound I have on many previous occasions 

 described in high terms of praise, and the 

 Berkeley Charity, the granddam of the 

 ever celebrated Cromwell, and was a 

 dauofhter of Drunkard and Cora. Drunk- 

 ard, a son of Hotspur and Danae. Cora, 

 daughter of the Duke of Rutland's Chaser 

 and Housemaid. Hotspur, son of the 

 Duke of Beaufort's Regent and Harlot. 

 Sportsman, it will thus be understood, was 

 bred at Berkeley, and went to Worcester- 

 shire in his puppyhood. Honesty and 



