62 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



were reared — so sent away as two-day-old whelps, 

 Sampler going to Mr T. Fen wick Harrison, master of 

 the Hertfordshire, and Whynot to Mr Richard Fort, 

 master of the Meynell. In 1908, Whynot with 

 Warrener, Prodigal and Hamlet helped to win 

 the prize for two couples at Peterborough for the 

 Meynell, whilst Warrener was the runner-up in the 

 stallion -hound class, being beaten by Milton Donovan 

 (1906), a massive lemon-pied and white hound. 



Perhaps of this famous quartette, Whynot has 

 best established his fame as a stallion hound, his 

 numerous progeny being in evidence at the top of 

 many an entry in kennels which have used him. 

 Meynell Whynot (1905) is by Bel voir Vagabond (1899).. 

 which gives us the blood of Pirate (1886), some of the 

 hardest in the Belvoir kennel, and his dam South 

 Cheshire Wayward, was a daughter of Warwick- 

 shire Talisman. A full-sized tan dog, going grey, 

 he is Belvoir in shape and character, with great 

 ribs, and a wise grey countenance, reminding us 

 of Belvoir Dexter, and his evidence of brain power. 

 Whynot with his size and quality is quite a grass- 

 country sort, a huntsman's friend that wears and 

 works, a great hound to remember ; long and low, 

 typical of Belvoir Gambler. 



Prodigal (1905), a son of Planter, out of Sparkle, 

 by Lounger, was bred by Mr Richard Fort during 

 his mastership to the Meynell, 1898-1903. Warrener 

 (1907), by Belvoir Warlaby (1904), from Locket, by 

 Lounger, is a Meynell stamp of dog, black, white 

 and tan in colouring, standing 24^ inches, and measur- 

 ing 32 inches round the heart. All activity and well 

 coupled up, he stood beautifully on the best of feet 

 and legs, his breeding being undeniable, sire and 

 dam possessing the blood of Belvoir Weathergage 

 (1876), whom Frank Gillard considered the tap root 



