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by Hermit out of Termagant. The kennels which pro- loqo^'t^on 

 vided the sires for the remainder of this long list were " 



the Vine, Mr, A. Smith's, Sir J. Mills', the Cheshire, 

 the Berkeley, the Duke of Grafton's the Heythrop, 

 Mr. Foljambe's, the Duke of Beaufort's, and the 

 !foocklesby. Mr. A. Smith's kennel is very much 

 en evidence among the dams, while representatives 

 are also to be found in that column from the Duke of 

 Beaufort's and the Duke of Grafton's. In the next year's i843. 

 list (1843) Commodore and Harper again represent the 

 home kennel among the sires, in company with Jericho, 

 who was entered in 1839 and was by Mr. Smythe 

 Owen's Jericho — his Jezebel, and Singer, who was 

 bought by Mr. Barnard as a four-year-old in 1840, 

 being by Mr. Wickstead's Cannibal — his Singer. The 

 order of things seen in the last list is quite reversed in 

 this, as out of eleven couples eight couples are to be at- 

 tributed to these sires, Lord Southampton's and Lord 

 Fitzwilliam's being the only other kennels which appear 

 among the sires in this list. Among the dams two 

 bitches from the Duke of Buccleuch's kennel appear, 

 and* foreign blood is also found in Brazen, a bitch 

 bought by Mr. Barnard as a five-year-old in 1840, and 

 who was by Sir Tatton Sykea' Brusher — Mr. Foljambe's 

 Willing. In the list for 1844, which contains nineteen 2^344 

 and a half couples, we again find Mr. Barnard mani- 

 festing his belief in foreign blood, as fifteen and a half 

 couples claim hounds in other kennels as their sires. 

 The kennels resorted to were Mr. Drake's, the Duke of 

 Buccleuch's, the Belvoir, Mr. Smith's, Mr. Villebois', 

 the Berkeley, Lord Lonsdale's, the Duke of Grafton's, 

 the Vine, and Sir R. Sutton's. Foreign blood among 

 dams is found in bitches from the Duke of Grafton's 

 Mr. Drake's, Sir W. Maxwell's, the Vine, and the 

 Oakley, and in Priestess, who was by Lord Lonsdale's 

 Platoff— Sir Tatton Sykes' Playful, and was 

 bought as a brood bitch by Mr. Barnard in 1844. The 

 Warwickshire uires in this list are Tarquin and Singer, 



