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relied upon to produce weightier sons, physique 

 and shapehness being maintained with very httle 

 help from outside strains of blood. The value of 

 such purity of ancestr}^ cannot be overestimated, 

 and the greatest interest is centred on each suc- 

 cessive entry put forward at Belvoir ; to see what 

 sources of blood have been skilfullv blended with 



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Master Gilbert and Edward Greenall on the flags at Belvoir. 



the parent stock. As the saying is, nothing succeeds 

 like success ; and the looker-on is apt to take it for 

 granted that these triumphs of selection and breed- 

 ing are arrived at without much difficulty on the 

 part of the kennel management. As was once 

 remarked in our hearing by an irreverent hard- 

 rider, watching the entry being judged, " Difficulty ! 

 why there's no difficulty breeding hounds when 

 you've got such a grand store of Belvoir bitches ; 



