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kennels. Carefully drafted for working qualities, 

 they show the best of sport and are wonderfully 

 under control. 



The kennel huntsman, George Coxon, — who has 

 lately retired, — first drew Gordon for inspection, a 

 nice lengthy dog, with plenty of stuff, though, I 

 think, some of the lighter built, more wiry sort were 

 preferred. Gordon (1906) by Ruler (1903), from 

 a noted matron of the kennel. Gadfly (1903), looks 

 a 23J inch hound, stands nicely, and possesses the 

 right quality. Not a great hound to show himself, 

 he is a stamp that would please many, and his 

 colouring is typically Belvoir, with plenty of tan, 

 edged with white. With Gordon was drawn Lands- 

 man (1907), by South Durham Primate (1901), from 

 Linnet (1905), a smart, taking little dog, wath the 

 best of neck and shoulders. The next couple of 

 23 inch hounds were two brothers, Struggler (1906) 

 and Shamrock (1907), by Morpeth Printer (1900), 

 from Singwell (1902), a very wiry, varminty pattern 

 of hound able to race or hunt close, and demons on 

 the line of a fox. The pack impress a stranger 

 at once as being very well broken, and it is 

 necessary that they should be, for they are at times 

 left to their own resources when running across 

 moorland wastes and deep rocky woodlands, where 

 no horse can get with them. As a matter of fact 

 hounds sometimes go through a whole season 

 without going on the moors, and at most are 

 not oftener than two or three times in each 

 hunting year. Strict discipline is also necessary 

 in the journey to meets, along roads which have 

 miles of covert on either side, and the whippers-in 

 are very quick to anticipate any riot if they see 

 a hound looking about, rounding him up with a 

 " 'Ware covert ! " Perhaps the greatest temptation 



