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presented with one or two, by Comte Tournon, of 

 Montmelas. These in due time Lord Galway passed 

 to Lord Onslow, but as this strain is now extinct I 

 need not further dilate on them except to say that 

 they were Le Couteulx hounds, far from inferior 

 specimens, and all beautifully marked. 



" Although they might have been known amongst 

 those who had the personal friendship of the two 

 peers I have named, to the general public they were 

 entirely unknown, and it was not until the winter show 

 at Wolverhampton, in 1875, where I showed Model, 

 which I had procured from the Jardin d'Acclima- 

 tation the previous year, that the British public 

 had the opportunity of making the Basset hound's 

 acquaintance on the show bench. Model was bred 

 by Comte le Couteulx, and with Fino de Paris stood 

 at stud in the Jardin d'Acclimatation when I first 

 saw him, consequently I had the pick of the two 

 best hounds France could then boast of. 



" At that time I was unaware that Lord Onslow 

 had Bassets. Had I known this I would have asked 

 his permission to breed the dog to one of his 

 bitches. But as I did not know this, and I could 

 not then procure a bitch, I, on the advice of the late 

 Mr. Lort, began breeding through a beagle, and in 

 the second generation produced a winner. 



11 I must here observe that the difference between 



