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Tlie bitch entry happened to be no very extraordinary one, although there 

 were no losses in their cases of much consequence. The cup bitch was 

 deservedly Beatrice, a very perfectly shaped young lady, by the Bel voir Spartan, 

 a hound that many good judges are very fund of, but dam Bellicent by Conqueror, 

 out of Bosnia, by the above-mentioned Baronet. There could be no better 

 breeding than this ; and Faithful, the second prize cup winner, can boast of very 

 good looks, with the nice legs and feet which are such a setting off to her own 

 brother. Fireman, the cup winner in the dog puppy class. A good bitch, called 

 Bertha, one of the best, so Leedham thinks, was lost some weeks ago out hunting, 

 and has not been heard of since, so, if a good-looking young bitch joins into a 

 neighbouring pack, and stray ones do sometimes, it may be known where she 

 comes from. A very pretty bitch is Dewdrop, by Dorimont — Mindful ; and 

 Denmark, of whom I shall have to say something presently, is answerable for a 

 neat one in Dorothy. Lapwing, by Bushman, a hound the Marquis of Worcester 

 has marked down to use, is very good-looking and full of use, and there are 

 several others of an order to prove very useful to the pack. 



The stallion hounds are headed by the now six-season hunter, Bushman, a 

 red-pied hound of a long, low, useful order, with plenty of depth and good back 

 ribs, and he has been an excellent workman, and bred to suit anj' breeder, who 

 may have a fancy for Mr. Meynell Ingram's old strain ; his sire Conjuror being 

 by the Fitzwilliam Somerset — Caroline, by Conqueror, son of the Bramham Moor 

 Carver — Pamela, by Eifleman, son of Hotspur, a brother to Hyacinth, who will 

 be found in the pedigree I have given of Manager ; and thereby easily traced 

 down to 1816. Landlord, of the same year as Bushman, I like quite as well, as 

 he is so full of foxhound character, and grandly bred, as he is by Granby, a sun 

 of the Belvoir Gallant — Lawless, by Miracle — Lavish, the dam of Linkboy, and 

 she was by Chorister — Laura, by Lord Henry Bentinck's Larkspur, Dorimont, by 

 the Grove Dorimont — Willing, by the Fitzwilliam Ransack — Watchful, her dam 

 Wilful by Wanderer, son of Lord Henry Bentinck's Wanderer, is very useful 

 looking, and, as will be seen, he inherits the most telling blood, llandom is 

 nothing much for looks, as he is hardly straight, and a bit flat-sided, but he is 

 to be used for his extraordinary nose and goodness. He is a red-pied, determined- 

 looking homid by the Brocklesby Racer — Antidote, by the Quorn Alfred, and, on 

 one occasion, he kept the pack right when no other hound could own the line, 

 and he fairly killed the fox. Fisherman is a bit odd in his colour, but shapely, 

 and so good in his work that he has been used this season very freely. He is by 

 Romulus, a son of the Grove Reginald — Fragment, by the Duke of Beaufort's 

 Freshman — Resolute, by Rummager, a son of Fairplay. Merryraan, a nice, little, 

 twenty-three inch hound, so often running in the bitch pack, is as good, Leedham 

 thinks, as a foxhound can be; he can always race to the head of affairs, and 

 wherever there is work to be done, he is there to do it. His breeding is all in 

 the direction of the old sorts, as he is by Marmaduke, a son of Baronet ; his dam 

 Merciful, by the Bramham Mountebank, by old Bob Ward's favourite, Merryman. 

 What a capital hound for blood the Meynell Merrj'man would be for the 

 Hertfordshire to use — their own sort, dashed with Mr. Lane Fox's and Mr. 

 Meynell Ingram's. The best-looking hound, I think, in the pack is Denmark, by 

 the Grafton Denmark — Laughter, by Baronet, her dam Ladybhd, a daughter of 

 Lavish, the dam of Linkboy. Beautiful, in his Belvoir tan colouring, is Denmark, 

 and he looks a high-bred foxhound. Leedham tells me that their bitches did not 

 hit at all with the Oakley, but they did with the Grafton, and I told him that the 

 last-named kennel is in such good form now as to suggest that their dog hounds 

 should be used freely, and I hoped he would go there. Pillager, who, like 



