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THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



Hon. W. H. J. 



North. 

 1862-1866. 



Mr. North' 

 entries. 



1862. 



Woldsman — his Eachel, and bought by Mr. Barnard as 

 a three-year-old in 1853) out of Songstress. The dams 

 in this list are, with one exception, of the home 

 kennel. The exception is the Duke of Beaufort's Fear- 

 less, which appears as dam to Hymen by the Duke's 

 Harlequin. The Saffron blood is found among the 

 dams in Songstress and Singwell, entered in 1858, by 

 him— Waspish ; Winifred, entered in 1857, by him— 

 Woodbine ; and Spinster, entered in 1855, by him — 

 Sanguine. 



After the first list the name of the Hon. W. H. J, 

 North appears alone at the head of the lists. Of the 

 sad event which was the cause of this my readers are 

 cognisant. Mr. North threw himself most heartily 

 into this part of the business of mastership, ably 

 assisted by Matthews, who was well up in breeding 

 matters. Pedigrees were dived into, and no efforts 

 spared to improve the constitution of the pack. His 

 efforts were not fruitless and a marked improvement 

 took place. 



In his list of entries for 1862 the most conspicuous 

 sire is Champion, who also figured in the previous year's 

 list, as appears above. Wellington and Stormeralso re- 

 appear. The other home sires are the Saffron of 1859 

 by old Saffron — Ruthful, and Forester, also of 1859, by 

 Denmark — Fearless. Other kennels represented in the 

 list of sires are Lord Southampton's, the Duke of Beau- 

 fort's and "the Cheshire." Foursiresappear from Lord 

 Southampton's, viz., Comus, Dorimont, Sportsman, 

 and Seaman. In three of them we get the Belvoir 

 blood, already extensively introduced into the War- 

 wickshire kennels, as Comus was by the Belvoir Comus 

 — Lord Southampton's Careful ; Dorimont by the Bel- 

 voir Chaur — Lord Southampton's Destiny ; and Seaman 

 by the Belvoir Guider — Lord Southampton's Stately. 

 Lord Southampton's Sportsman was by his Sultan — his 

 Sophie. The Duke of Beaufort's sires were FoiJer, 



