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whom the breeding of the pack is thoroughly 

 known. With the best of expert opinion at our 

 elbow, to mark the pedigrees which bring in certain 

 lines of blood — running back to the mighty Trojan 

 of 1780, and at the same time point out the char- 

 acteristic traits of certain families of hounds — a 

 day on the flags at Birdsall is most interesting 



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Tom Bishopp. 



and instructive. Tom Bishopp established his fame 

 as a hound-breeder when huntsman to the Grafton 

 — ^breeding Waggoner, and Woodman — ^whose blood 

 comes into some of the most fashionable pedigrees 

 of to-day. From the Grafton, Bishopp went for a 

 spell of ofhce to the Quorn, first under Captain 

 Burns Hartopp, then Captain Frank Forester ; and 

 in 1907 went to Lord Middleton's — where he had 

 previously acted as whipper-in — exchanging places 

 with George Leaf, who replaces him at Ouorn. 



