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machinery planned to work at top speed, the modern 

 thoroughbred foxhound is its counterpart. Waverley 

 looks the personification of strength with liberty 

 of action, and his brother Warner is not far behind 

 him, though a more lengthy dog, with slightly 

 more elegance of neck and shoulder, which captivate 

 the eye, as did those of his illustrious grandsire. 

 It was alwa^^s said that Bel voir Stormer, — who on 



Meynell Waver lej- (1909), Champion at Peterborough 191 1. 



his dam's side strained back to Grove Harkaway, — 

 was a great hound in his work, and so are his grand- 

 sons at Meynell, Warner nailing a fox single-handed 

 in his first season when topping the park fence, both 

 going over together locked in a grim struggle. 



Divided from his companion in couples, Cranmer 

 gives the impression of another type of hound 

 in character and outline ; his massive head and 

 lengthy frame calling to mind Warwickshire Talis- 

 man. A son of Meynell Whalebone, from Crafty, 

 by Belvoir Carnival (1902), a son of Belvoir 



