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mand. Mr. Corbet bought that crack pack the 

 North Warwickshire for 1500 guineas, but John 

 Ward paid 2000 guineas for the same hounds when 

 they came into his hands. Mr. Osbaldeston knew r 

 what he was about when, in 1806, he purchased the 

 Burton for 800 guineas ; but when the " Squire's M 

 hounds came to be sold at Tattersall's in 1840, they 

 realized 5219 guineas, which may be taken as the 

 best on record for a pack of foxhounds. Against 

 this maybe set the modest item of 15 guineas which 

 twenty-one couples of the Haydon hounds brought 

 at auction in 1884. Ten couples of Mr. Osbaldeston's 

 realised 2380 guineas. Then in 1845 Mr. Foljambe's 

 hounds sold for 3600 guineas ; Lord Donerail's, in 

 1859, for 1334 guineas ; Mr. Drake's, 2632 guineas ; 

 and, in 1838, Ralph Lambton paid Lord Suffield 

 3000 guineas for his highly-bred hounds. These 

 are, no doubt, the most unusual prices ever made 

 for foxhounds. In 1867 the Wheatland hounds 

 were sold at Tattersall's in different lots for ^750, 

 and yearly at Rugby drafts are sold by auction 

 almost at any price, varying from a sovereign to io/. 

 a couple. 



Stonehenge jocularly remarks : " Nose combined 

 with speed and stoutness have always been con- 

 sidered as the essentials for the foxhound, but of late 

 years, owing to enormous fields which have attended 



