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The great majority of the lots consisted of four couples 

 each, and the total sum realised was 1013 gs., Mr, 

 Selby Lowndes paying the top prices, viz. 160 gs. and 

 150 gs. In the succeeding May a very fine pack was 

 sold at the Corner, when Lord Doneraile sent up his 

 foxhounds, which had been bred entirely from the 

 kennels of the Duke of Rutland, Lord Yarborough, 

 Lord Henry Bentinck, and Mr. Foljambe. Fourteen 

 couples of unentered hounds realised the sum of 

 458 gs., fifty-three couples of entered hounds realis- 

 ing 876 gs., or a total of 1334 gs., and the best price 

 (140 gs.) was paid by Mr. Buckley for four couples of 

 old hounds. 



At the end of the following season Mr. Villebois 

 commissioned Messrs. Tattersall to sell the West Nor- 

 folk, and thirty-nine couples of entered hounds changed 

 hands for 550 gs., fourteen couples of unentered hounds 

 for 140 gs., and seven brood bitches for 122 gs., giving 

 a grand total of 812 gs., Mr. Hammond paying the 

 top price of 135 gs. for four couples of entered 

 hounds. Another Quorn sale took place at the kennels 

 in the April of 1866, when Mr. Clowes gave up, and 

 twenty-one lots made up of fifty-seven couples realised 

 1401 gs. The Marquis of Hastings was the highest 

 bidder, paying 155 gs. for one lot. 



April was a favourite month for holding a sale of 

 hounds, and in 1867 Captain Jarrett, who had pur- 

 chased the South Wilts from Mr. Pain, his prede- 

 cessor, for ;!{J^iooo, now sold them for ^^1500, twenty-five 

 couples and seven brood bitches going to other estab- 

 lishments. At this sale the best price was 340 gs., bid 

 by Mr. A. W. Hall, then master of the Heythrop, for 

 four couples, and the pack possessed plenty of good 

 blood from the Belvoir, the Duke of Beaufort's, Lord 



