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However, the oldest huntsmen, the late Jack 

 Morgan amongst others, have assured me that for 

 dash and drive there has been nothing like them, 

 and it was a characteristic with all hounds straining 

 from the Belvoir Singer that they were veritable 

 tyrants on the line of a sinking fox, and savages at 

 a death. There was a hound in Lord Poltimore's 

 called Woldsman, by Comus, out of a bitch nearly 

 sister in blood to Siren, and he had to be coupled 

 up as soon as possible at a kill, as he was not 

 particular about mouthing another hound in his fury; 

 and two sons of his, afterwards with the Bicester, 

 and their descendants again, were just like him. 

 Another great descendant from the Drake Duster 

 was the Belvoir Guider, a son of the former, out of 

 Gamesome, by General. To Guider must be 

 credited the foundation of Lord Portsmouth's pack, 

 as his Lincoln and a host of valuable bitches, bred 

 from in due course, gave to the Eggesford pack its 

 high reputation. Guider also left his mark with the 

 Bramham Moor and Sir Watkin Wynn's ; but his 

 stock has not been so widely distributed as the Sena- 

 tor's. Senator was entered in 1862, and, like Duster, 

 he was out of a bitch called Destitute, the dam also 

 of Render, and she was by Sir Richard Sutton's 

 Dryden, by Lord Henry Bentinck's Contest. Besides 

 the field qualities noticed above as belonging to the 



