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McDowell's rooms, Edinburgh, when sixteen hounds 

 realised 296/. 16^. The highest figures were 50 

 guineas for the thirteen-year-old Factor, 40 guineas 

 for Elshee, 30 guineas for Fury, the others bringing 

 30, 26, 20, and 19 guineas respectively. Mr. 

 McKenzie, Ross-shire; Mr. J. Wright, Yeldersby 

 House, Derby; Mr. Menzies, Chesthill ; Mr. Grant, 

 Glenmorriston ; Colonel Campbell of Monzie ; Mr. 

 Wright-Omaston ; Lord Boswell ; Mr. W. Gordon, 

 Guardbridge, Fifeshire ; Lord Bredalbane ; the Duke 

 of Sutherland ; Mr. Spencer Lucy ; Mr. George 

 Cupples, author of "Scotch Deerhounds and their 

 Masters " ; and Dr. Hadden, have at one time or 

 another had good deerhounds in their kennels, as 

 well as many others of the older Scottish families. 

 The Dukes of Richmond and Gordon for generations 

 kept a fine kennel of deerhounds, and the remnants 

 thereof, which included a couple or two of grand old 

 hounds, were brought from the Highlands to Ald- 

 ridge's in London, where they were sold by auction 

 in 1895, realising sorry prices, varying only from 

 one guinea to six guineas each. 



In 1869 we find a Cameron of Lochiel sending 

 to Curzon Hall and taking a first prize with Torum, 

 who afterwards became the property of Mr. H. C. 

 Musters. Torum had been sent from the Highlands 

 because he was too big for work, and Mr. Donald 



