3 78 Saddle and Sirloin. 



the river with a brace of them in the couples, and how 

 one held back at the critical moment and dragged him 

 into the torrent. He only made one addition to the 

 text in reply to my query, whether the greyhounds 

 were drowned. " Drowned ? he was tied to stick to 

 them it looks like it" 



From the greyhounds in stone we adjourned to 

 Chloe, and found the old lady a little greyer in the 

 face, but still " beautiful for ever," without Madame 

 Rachel's aid. She had then had four litters by Ca- 

 naradzo, King Death, Reveller 2nd, Racing Hopfactor 

 (out of whose dozen only a couple lived). Old Cheer- 

 boys, that hero of Ashdown, a rough-looking never- 

 say-die gentleman, was still in good force ; and there 

 was a black puppy (Captain) by him, as well as an 

 infant brace from Royal Seal, which were consorting 

 with two lusty, smooth, liver-coloured pointer pups, 

 with spotted heads and paws, and skulls and ears such 

 as one rarely sees nowadays. Charming May is nearly 

 as pretty as her dam, and there is the same curious 

 dip behind the chine. Cock Robin was a handsome, 

 muscular dog, but a little heavy-shouldered, and his 

 running has not been so uniformly brilliant as it once 

 promised to be. Chioe's running-weight was 561bs. ; 

 and when she was once reduced to 54lbs., she wouldn't 

 struggle at all. Boynton always considers that her 

 best course was with Sapphire, at Ashdown, when she 

 was beaten " under disadvantages" in the run up for 

 the Oaks. She goes out occasionally on to the grouse 

 hills behind the house, to show the young ones the 

 way over the old Waterloo gallop. It is two miles 

 from the Harrogate Road to Popplewell House, near 

 Beamley Beacon, up-hill, and over all kinds of ground, 

 with a brook and plenty of stone walls in it. The 

 puppies learn it by a field at a time, and are tied to a 

 gate and unloosed with a hundred yards' start of each 

 other. They run in faith or by memory, following 

 each other for the first mile, and after that they can 



