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such a booklet is trifling. Some Masters print on the 

 left-hand page, which is left blank, a record of prizes 

 gained by the hounds named on the right-hand page. 



The naming of hounds is a serious business, which 

 ought to be undertaken with care and thought. Some 

 packs are named without any regard to the fitness of 

 things. Hound nomenclature should be sonorous, and 

 to my mind the old-fashioned names are far prefer- 

 able to some of the modem intrusions. How infinitely 

 to be preferred, for example, are such names as Bravery, 

 Champion, Stormer, and Statesman, to Squeaker, 

 Sally, Thwacker, and Gaslight, all of which I have 

 encountered. I have known a cricket enthusiast 

 name three hounds out of one litter, Grace, Abel, and 

 Ranji. Grace and even Abel one could pass well 

 enough, but Ranji always jarred upon me as a hound 

 name. I confess to a great weakness for old-fashioned 

 hound names. I always remember, as a youngster, 

 a Pytchley puppy named Pantler, one of the most 

 engaging yet mischievous rascals that ever went out to 

 walk. His name has stuck in my memory ever since. It 

 is a very ancient, probably now an almost extinct one. 



The whelps should be named from the initials of 

 either sire or dam, and it should be the care of the 

 person selecting them to see to it that the names in 

 one litter are not too much alike, so that each puppy 

 shall easily recognise his own name when called. In 

 the Appendix " B " I have given some lists of hound 

 names, which may be found useful by those in search 

 of a fair vocabulary of nomenclature. These com- 

 prise hound names from " Thoughts on Hunting " 

 (1780), and from the Duke of Beaufort's, the Duke of 

 Rutland's, Mr. Musters' (the Pytchley), and Mr. 

 Osbaldeston's (the Quorn) packs in 1826. 



