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Pedlar's year were Mr. R. Chandos-Pole and the 

 Hon. C, Brand. 



During Jack Brown's reign as huntsman to the 

 present Lord Willoughby de Broke, he made a great 

 hit with two young dogs, Traveller ('03) and Wizard 

 ('06), who came up to the high standard shown by 

 the Warwickshire. The first of these, Traveller, 

 winner of the champion prize in 1904, was a hound 

 with a distinguishing white stern, like Hermit had, 

 his sire being Belvoir Handel and his dam Tragedy, 

 the daughter of the famous Talisman. He looked 

 the foxhound in every hne, combining substance 

 with quality, with a beautiful carriage, and the best 

 of feet. Three years later Jack Brown was in his 

 glory, as he walked into the ring wearing one boot 

 and a legging to win another champion prize with 

 Wizard ('06), a dark-coloured hound, by Tuner from 

 Wilful, the daughter of Tudor. The same day 

 Traveller also won as the best stallion hound, after 

 a hard tussle with Atherstone Conquest, the runner- 

 up, and the occasion will long be remembered by 

 the regular Peterborough goers. Mr. Charles 

 McNeill, master of the North Cotswold, and Mr. 

 Gerald Hardy, master of the Meynell, were the 

 judges, going for symmetry and style in preference 

 to bone and size. Jack Brown stood chewing a bit 

 of biscuit, smihng into the hound's face ; Traveller 

 giving a marvellous show of his blood-like quality 

 in statuesque pose. A very amusing description of 

 the scene was given by Pomponius Ego in the 

 pages of Vanity Fair, from which we give an ex- 

 tract : " Personally, I should have bestowed the 

 sire's prize upon the Warwickshire Traveller, be- 

 cause he raised a rippling laugh, and bent a beam 

 of humour upon the scene — no hound at Peter- 

 borough has ever before reahsed the true dignity of 



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