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and was bred by Lieut. -Col. G. C. Ricardo. Display- 

 ing the elegance of neck and shoulders shown by 

 his sire, he possessed beautiful quality and bone, 

 captivating the eye of the judges, who were Sir 

 Bache Cunard, Mr. John Watson, and Mr. W. H. A. 

 Wharton. 



Amongst those who have only kept bitch packs 

 to hunt with and done well at Peterborough, the 

 South Cheshire are a notable example, under the 

 mastership of the Messrs. Corbet, father and son. 

 South Cheshire Tarnish, Triumph, Testy, and Trilby — 

 all 1902 entry — will be remembered amongst other 

 celebrities, and to-day are the matrons in the private 

 pack at Barleythorpe, hunted by the Earl of Lons- 

 dale, who purchased, for over £3000, twenty-five 

 couple, when Mr. Corbet retired. One of the dog 

 puppies bred in the South Cheshire kennel and 

 given by Mr. Reginald Corbet to Mr. Fenwick Harri- 

 son, master of the Hertfordshire Hunt, when a 

 two-day-old whelp, grew to be the ''top dog" at 

 Peterborough, 1907. 



Hertfordshire Sampler ('06) by Mr. Wroughton's 

 Spanker, from South Cheshire Tarnish, possesses the 

 blood of many great hounds seen during the past 

 twenty-five years, there being nothing to beat his 

 breeding. He stands about twenty-four inches, 

 showing the richest of Belvoir colouring. No 

 wonder Will Wells, his huntsman, was proud, when 

 warmly congratulated by numerous Belvoir ad- 

 mirers, who remembered him, " witching the world 

 with horsemanship," as a whipper-in to the Duke 

 of Rutland's hounds in the early eighties, a purse 

 of money and eleven silver hunting-horns being 

 presented when he left to go huntsman to the 

 Puckeridge, under Mr. Gosling. 



The Meynell Why Not ('05), already ahuded to, 



