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Griffons, such as he used to keep years ago, he 

 informed me that he could not, unless I put my hand 

 very deeply into my pocket. These hounds were 

 like otterhounds in form and texture of coat, like- 

 wise of the same colour, and quite as big as the 

 largest smooth coated Bassets over here. About 

 1874 1875 I used to see a similar type of hound 

 in the variety class at our leading shows, owned 

 first by Dr. Seton, and then by the Rev. J s C. 

 Macdona. This hound is registered in the Kennel 

 Club Stud Book as Romano, and a very handsome 

 specimen he was ; a hard coated, workmanlike dog, 

 brown-grey grizzle in colour, and always admired by 

 the hunting men who saw him either on the bench 

 or in the ring. 



11 Since then I have never seen a hound like 

 Romano in type and size, except Mrs. Ellis's Rocket, 

 which, though not of exactly quite the same 

 character, comes nearer to that mentioned above 

 than the smaller varieties, which might pass better 

 as rough-coated dachshunds than do duty at our 

 shows as Basset griffons. 



" In the last class of these hounds which I had 

 the pleasure of inspecting there were no less than 

 four types, and if we included those owned by His 

 Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, I may, I 

 think, correctly state that there are five different 



