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said 6400 guineas), which may be taken as the 

 best on record for a pack of foxhounds. Some of 

 them went back to Mr. Harvey Combe, and Lord 

 Cardigan bought ten couples to remain in the 

 Pytchley country. Against this may be set the 

 modest item of 1 5 guineas which twenty-one couples 

 of the Haydon hounds brought at auction in 1884; 

 but this lowly record was beaten in 1895, when the 

 Forest of Dean foxhounds were sold for a five 

 pound note. There were fourteen couples of hounds 

 here. 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, ^^^ 

 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 Tatter- 

 salFs in different lots for £^^0. In May, 1894, 

 twenty-four couples of entered hounds, four and a 

 half unentered, and sundry litters of puppies — the 

 Herts and Essex — sold at Rugby for 675 guineas ; 

 and in 1896, Mr. Vaughan-Davies' pack realised at 

 Aldridge's, in St. Martin's-lane, 139 guineas for nine- 

 teen and a half couples of entered hounds, and 

 58 guineas for seven and a half couples unentered. 

 Yearly, at Rugby, drafts are sold by auction almost 



