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very gracefully carried out, and it is to be 

 hoped the precedent will prompt the sport- 

 loving agriculturalists, who flourish in 

 Leicestershire, to respond to the liberality 

 by volunteering to walk puppies. The 

 show took place in August, and a special 

 invitation to be present was irresistible. 

 There was a famous entry of seventeen 

 couples and a half, all of which were bred 

 by Mr Musters, many of them by his own 

 sires, others by the Duke of Rutland's 

 Senator, Contest, Stormer, Dryden, and 

 Tarquin,also the Hon. George Fitzwilliam's 

 Bluster and Major. The judges on the 

 occasion were the veteran John Walker, 

 Frank Goodall, and Tom Firr. Their 

 verdicts were given in favour of Furrier, 

 son of Lucifer and Frolic, walked by Mr 

 Peats of Edwalton, and Transit, dauehter 

 of the Duke of Rutland's Tarquin and 

 Termagant. She had been duly fostered 

 by Mr Farthing, a worthy tanner living at 

 Quorn, who takes vast interest in the 

 puppies entrusted to his care. It was con- 

 templated that Mr Musters would hunt a 



