426 Saddle and Sirloin. 



Tom Sebright always called Singer his best, and he 

 told Walker, " You've got a plum in Royal." He was 

 a great fence jumper. When the fox was sinking, he 

 once tried to fly a double post and rails up hill, near 

 Gredington Park, and fell back. However, he went 

 at it again and over, and Lord Combermere never 

 forgot it. Walker always thought him the best he 

 ever followed, and the Belvoir, Grove, Fitzhardinge, 

 Badminton, Fitzwilliam, Cheshire, and Eglinton ken- 

 nels all borrowed, or sent to him. The Beaufort Rag- 

 lan, a first prize stallion at Islington, was by him, and 

 the Belvoir kennel bred from two of his sons. Never 

 was hound more attentive to business in and out of 

 cover, and no whip ever crossed his back. He hunted 

 for ten seasons, and died in his thirteenth. Even in 

 the ninth he ran well to head ; whether going to cover 

 or returning home, it was his whim to be a quarter of 

 a mile ahead of Walker, and he would wait for him 

 and wave his stern when he came to a cross road. 

 His stock have the same habit; and Walker left 

 eighteen couple of them in the kennel. The old dog 

 was sent in a basket to London, to be painted by Sir 

 Francis Grant in the Wynnstay presentation picture 

 of Sir Watkin and Lady Wynn. Unfortunately no- 

 thing would induce him to rise in the studio, and there 

 he sat, looking steadfastly up in the face of Sir 

 Francis, who presented Walker with his sketch of him, 

 and a very cherished centre bit it is in the parlour at 

 Marchwiel. 



In 1856 the produce of "We are Seven" of the 

 Craftsman and Precious litter were entered, and 

 Comely, Clara, and Conjuror proved the best of the 

 four couple. In 1857 the blood of Mameluke (by 

 Yarborough Comrade) gave much strength to the 

 entry, and Old Pyramid, whose ham-string was bitten 

 in two by a fox, contributed two couple of good ones 

 by Yarborough Harper. The Ruthless litter of seven 

 was also a hit, as Walker had taken her on specula- 



