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by Ranter, and It is therefore not diflBcult to trace 

 several lines of Furrier in the Grove Barrister, a 

 hound well in the memory of all breeders of the 

 present day. The Fitzwilliam claim a line to 

 Furrier, chiefly through Hardwick, a hound entered 

 in the Milton kennels in 1843, ^Y ^^' Drake's 

 Hector out of Goldfinch, her dam Frenzy, by Fatal, son 

 of Ferryman, son of Furrier. Hardwick was the sire 

 of Handmaid, the dam of Hardwick of 1851, and the 

 latter sire in turn of Hercules and Harbinger. There 

 was another double Furrier cross in the Fitzwilliams, 

 as their Hero and Hotspur were by the second Hard- 

 wick out of Ransom, by Mr. Foljambe's Roister. 



" Another famous line from Furrier, and through 

 the same kennels as the above, is traced to the 

 Burton Dorimont, a hound spoken of in Lord Henry 

 Bentinck's diary as a thoroughly good foxhound. 

 He was got by Roderick by Mr. Foljambe's Roister, 

 named above as out of a Herald bitch. There was 

 a double cross of this sort in Dorimont, as his dam 

 Daffodil was out of Dairymaid by Driver, son of 

 Harbinger, brother to Herald, and a third cross to 

 Furrier might even be traced through the Belvoir 

 Chaser. There is Dorimont blood In the Fitzwilliam 

 kennel, as Dagmar and Daphne were by him ; and 

 their Selim of 1 869 was out of Dagmar, and Sellm 

 is the sire of Balmy, Bloomer, Remedy, and others 



