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ardentlv attached to the pack than her husband, is Ho.v.w. H. J. 



*' North 



depicted as riding Sb. George. Matthews is on Peter 1862-1866. 



Grey, and F. Smith and W. Hemming, the whips, on 

 White Leg and Chief Justice. The hounds, which 

 occupy conspicuous places in the painting, are Ter- 

 magant, Saffron II,, Remnant, Ajax, Gamester, Mag- 

 net, Lavender, Lightning, Brasher, Bedford, Orator, 

 Nelson, Promise, Rallywood, and Singer. Gamester 

 was good in dry weather and was a wonderful leader 

 over dry fallows. Bally wood was good at finding. In 

 writing of the Saffron of 1859 I have called him Saffron The Saffrons. 

 II. He does not appear as such in the stud book, and 

 there are other names I know which I have used in 

 connection with two or more hounds and have not so 

 distinguished between them ; but in the case of such im- 

 portant hounds as the Saffrons, I thought it desirable to 

 put some distinctive mark in every case and pre- 

 ferred that adopted to repeating their years of entry. 

 The old Saffron was still in the kennels in Mr. 

 North's time, although of course not as a 

 working hound. He still, however, retained 

 good scenting powers and would often go out with the 

 pack. It was interesting and amusing to see how, on 

 a poor day, perhaps, when there did not seem much 

 to be done. Saffron would leave the others and make 

 for home alone. 



In 1862, Mr. North formed a pack out of drafts Mr. North's 

 from ** the Warwickshire," ** the Belvoir," " the Hoi- private pack 

 derness," Sir W. W. Wynn's, and other packs, with 

 which he hunted that part of the Warwickshire coun- 

 try on the other side of the Avon, round Alcester, 

 three day's a week, the master of "the North Warwick- 

 shire " and "the Worcestershire" kindly giving him 

 parts of their countries, and he continued to hunt that 

 country about once in three weeks with the Warwick- 

 shire hounds. Finding the distance from Kineton too 

 great for the hounds to travel be made a kennel at Alcester 



