HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



had not spared himself in his endeavours to im- 

 prove the condition of the pack under his charge, 

 and having turned to Brocklesby, to Berkeley, 

 and also to Belvoir for this purpose, could now 

 boast of having in kennel an efficient pack of 

 hounds possessing much of the best blood in 

 England. 



" The strength of the kennel comes from the 

 Yarborough and Fitzhardinge drafts, of which some 

 ten couple have been sent from England for four 

 seasons past. The Yarborough dogs and the Fitz- 

 hardinge bitches have done them most service ; and 

 Bedford^ and Auditor among the former, and 

 Bertha^ and Songstress^ among the latter have 

 been the mainstay. The Fitzhardinge (late Mr 

 Morrell's) Bajazets have ' proved themselves good 

 workers with fine constitutions ' ; and the old dog ^ 

 was put away in his eleventh season at the kennels, 

 which are at Golfhall, five miles from Edinburgh. 

 The Cromwell nose, which helped Harry Ayris ^ 

 over many a dry fallow, also bids fair to be perpetu- 

 ated in his son Waterloo.^ In his very first season 



1 Bedford (1861) by Lord Yarborough's Blucher (1856)— bis Harriet 

 (1857). 



2 Bertba (1860) by Sir Maurice Berkeley's Bondsman (1855) — his 

 Ada (1856). 



3 Songstress (1860J by Sir Richard Sutton's Bajazet (1854) — Sir 

 M. Berkeley's Susan (1857). 



* Sir Richard Sutton's Bajazet by Mr Lumley's Royster (1848) — 

 Sir Richard's Barbara (1851). 



* The Berkeley huntsman. 



6 Waterloo (1862) by Lord Fitzhardinge's Cromwell (1855) — his 

 Woodbine (1859). 



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