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ground. On the occasion of our visit we put in 

 much time on the flags at the kennels at Witherly, 

 which were built in 18 15 by a former master of 

 Atherstone, " Squire " Osbaldeston. Each succes- 

 sive master to the Atherstone purchases the pack 

 from his predecessor, Mr Gerald Hardy giving 

 Mr W. F. Inge £2000 in 1895, to be revalued by 

 Messrs Tattersall on his retirement in 1903, to the 

 incoming master, Mr J. C. Munro, for £3500. Mr 

 Hardy dipped freely into the Belvoir blood, and 

 the model of the kennel some ten years ago was 

 Challenger (1897), winner of the champion cup at 

 Peterborough, a lengthy hound of Belvoir stamp, 

 by Partisan, out of Crony, who was by Belvoir 

 Gordon. Other equally well-known winners, whose 

 blood comes into many good pedigrees to-day, were 

 Despot (1900), by Belvoir Delegate, from Dainty ; 

 Comrade (1900), by Regulus, from Colombine, by 

 Meynell Colonel; Nailer (1900), by Warwickshire 

 Nailer from Diligent. The bitches were just as 

 successful on the flags, and to enumerate the long 

 list of triumphs which 

 fell to the kennel when - ^ 

 managed by Mr Gerald ~--S;a_J^ 

 Hardy and George 

 White more, would 

 occupy the space of a 

 whole chapter. Mr 

 Munro was just as keen, 

 but the winning sequence ' ^ ^^ 



^ ^ On the grass. 



eventually came to an 



end when the pack of dog-hounds were sold away 



from the kennel. 



In March 1910, during the present mastership of 

 the Earl of Huntingdon, who hunts the dog-hounds 

 himself with great success, we renewed acquaintance 



