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their veins, a far greater percentage of useless ones 

 come from the commoner stock. An exceptionally 

 well-bred hound is generally known, anyway by a 

 few followers of the pack, and if he should happen 

 to be slack in his work it is remarked and spoken 

 about, but, if two or three couples of the home-bred 

 ones will not enter, they are drafted or put down 

 and nothing more is ever heard of them. 



To turn to the illustrations of the foxhounds. 

 I would first of all remark that at one time I hoped 

 to be able to give five generations of the Belvoir 

 hounds in a direct line — viz., Gambler '84, Nominal 

 '88, Watchman '92, Dexter '95, and Daystar '03. 

 Unfortunately, I have been unable to secure one of 

 Nominal, thus breaking a link in what is generally 

 considered the strongest line of foxhound blood in 

 the world. Do not these five generations plainly 

 and conclusively prove the value of keeping to the 

 best strains ? 



To have seen Belvoir Gambler, built as he was on 

 such beautiful lines and with wonderful bone, was a 

 study in hound-breeding itself. He was looked 

 upon as the stallion hound at Belvoir, and his stock 

 was diffused throughout all the foxhound kennels in 

 England. The beautiful foxhound type he put into 

 all his get was remarkable, and it would be hard to 

 find a kennel in which a trace of his blood could 

 not be found. 



Gambler, besides being the most perfect type of a 



