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At the Rugby Hound Sale of May 19, 1902, Mr. R. 

 Carnaby Forster sold the Ledbury dog pack at the 

 kennels owing to his hunting fewer days a week, and 

 so confining himself to hunting with the bitch pack. 

 He, however, did not have a very good sale at Rugby, 

 as only nineteen couples out of thirty-six entered and 

 unentered hounds were disposed of, fifteen couples of 

 entered hounds realising 174 gs., or an average of 

 iii gs., Mr. Compton, of the New Forest, giving 

 51 gs. for two and a half couples. In the December of 

 this same year Mr. Poole sold the Teme Valley fox- 

 hounds at Knighton to Mr. Peter Ormrod, the price 

 being,! 10 gs. 



In the following February, when Mr. J. C. Munro 

 resigned the mastership of the Atherstone, certain gentle- 

 men connected with the country purchased the pack for 

 3500 gs. through Messrs. Tattersall, and at Rugby, 

 during the annual sales, twenty-seven and a half couples 

 of the Percy sold for 515 gs., or an average of about £18 

 a couple, Mr. Bell giving 96 gs. for two couples, and 

 ninety-eight lots, including nearly two hundred couples, 

 amounting to a grand total for the whole sale of 2 1 78 gs. , 

 this including ten couples of entered hounds and a 

 stallion hound of the North Herefordshire, which 

 changed hands for 376 gs. At the first Rugby Hound 

 Sale for 1904, presided over by Mr. Rawlence, so well 

 known on these occasions to hunting men, seventy-one 

 lots, made up of one hundred and sixty-six and a 

 half couples, realised .^521 17s., the Pytchley — four- 

 teen couples of entered and twenty-five and a half 

 couples of unentered hounds — realising 105 gs., while 

 in the May sale seventy-two lots realised ^^915 12s. 

 The Galtee were sold for 322 gs., 25 gs. being given 

 for two couples of unentered bitches, but it should 



