Some Noted Fox-liounds 



Galway's hounds fetched ;£45oo, Earl Fitzwilham 

 being the purchaser last year. It is an open 

 secret that an American sportsman would buy 

 either the Belvoir or the Warwickshire, presum- 

 ably Lord W. de Broke's, for ;£io,ooo, if he 

 could get the chance ; and a gentleman from the 

 United States has actually offered ;^5oo for two 

 brood bitches at Belvoir strolling about the park 

 in whelp. They are natural and developed pro- 

 ducts of these islands, and there is a demand for 

 them in every country ; abroad, however, through 

 want of management, difference of climate and soil, 

 they deteriorate. No foreign imported hound has 

 ever benefited our breed. The late Mr. Merthyr 

 Guest was induced to try three studhounds from 

 the United States, but without success. 



Now that we have perfection in hounds and to 

 sum up, Mr. G. Osbaldeston's Furrier was acknow- 

 ledged the best up to his day, 1821. Since then 

 there have been scores of hounds as good, and 

 many probably better — to witness, the Belvoir 

 pack, one of which Dexter hunted when he was 

 ten and showed marvellous constitution. The late 

 Lord Willoughby de Broke estimated the cost of 

 his Warwickshire pack in many thousands, and 

 was one among the finest of hound judges of his 

 day. 



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