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qualities and characteristics of the foxhound has been the system 

 of keeping several celebrated foxhounds in view when going in 

 for high breeding. Mr. Parry, so long associated with the 

 Puckeridge, had two hounds called Pilgrim and Rummager, both 

 entered in 1840, and the latter was a great-grandson of the 

 famous Furrier, whilst Pilgrim was descended from another 

 celebrity known as the Belvoir Topper. With this couple of 

 hounds Mr. Parry stamped his pack, as they were always kept in 

 view, as it were, and before Mr. Parry left off hound-keeping his 

 kennel had a very high reputation for blood. Of late years whole 

 packs have been established from the Belvoir Senator, and others 

 have been benefited in a similar degree, through holding to the 

 Burton Dorimont line, the Drake Duster, the Wynnstay Royal, 

 the Grove Furrier, or the Berkeley Castle Cromwell. 



To come to the notable twelve that have been, and may still be, 

 esteemed as "landmarks" of hound breeding, I should, of course, 

 name the Osbaldeston Furrier, a Belvoir-bred hound, as he came 

 in a draft from the ducal kennels, and was by their Saladin out 

 of their Fallacy, and thence going back to Mr. Meynell's hounds 

 of 1790. It has been stated that Furrier was not so much a 

 perfect working hound as a hard runner, as he was inclined to be 

 jealous and impatient on a cold scent; but he was the leading 

 hound in every fast thing, and he never did wrong when holding 

 that important post of honour. He was the sire of Ranter, and 

 to that hound Mr. Foljambe was principally indebted for the 

 Furrier blood, as his Herald and Harbinger, entered in 1835, 

 were by Ranter. Herald was the sire of Wildair, sire of Wild Boy, 

 sire of Modish, the dam of The Grove Guider. Harbinger and 

 Herald appear several times in Barrister's pedigree, as, for 

 instance, he was by Rambler, son of Roister, son of Captive, 

 a daughter of Herald's ; and the dam of Rambler again was 

 Dorothy, her dam Dowager, by Songster, a son of Sybil by the 

 Osbaldeston Ranter. The sire of Roister again was Render, son 

 of Riot, by Ranter, and it is therefore not difficult to trace several 

 lines of Furrier in the Grove Barrister, a hound well in the 



