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forward from Safety. Lord Willoughby de Broke's Wild- 

 boy also sired hounds from Sprightly, Sonnet, and Trifle. 

 Wildboy was by Pytchley Prompter out of Wary, a 

 grand-daughter of Belvoir Weathergage. Fearnaught, by 

 Streamer out of Fashion, and Flambeau, by Factor out of 

 Fearless, were the winning dog hounds at the Puppy Show 

 that year, the winning bitches being Frolic, sister to 

 Flambeau, and Honesty, one of Harlequin's puppies. 

 Frolic was the dam of the winning dog hound in 1897, 

 and Stately, by Factor out of Scandal, became the dam of 

 good fox-hounds. Remedy, Sunshine, Watchful, Nonsuch, 

 Redwing, Rushlight, and Welladay all proved good work- 

 ing hounds and brood bitches. 



It was this year that Lord Yarborough, being com- 

 pelled to reduce his establishment, decided to sell his dog- 

 pack to Lord Lonsdale, twenty couples of entered hounds 

 and six couples of unentered taking up their quarters in 

 the Quorn kennels. Lord Yarborough was to have the 

 use of any stud- hounds he required, and Harlequin and 

 Acrobat eventually returned to Brocklesby. Lord Lons- 

 dale sold the pack afterwards to Mr. Merthyr Guest, the 

 Master of the Blackmore Vale Hounds, and at that gentle- 

 man's sale the hounds of Brocklesby blood made ])y far 

 the highest prices. 



The dog hounds entered in 1896 went to the Bedale 

 kennel. Herald, by Harlequin out of Sprightly, and 

 Hengist, by Harper out of Spiteful, being the winning 

 hounds of the year. Herald was the sire of Random, 

 Rustler, Rosebud, and Rapid, put forward in 1898. The 

 winning bitches were Hopeful and Al^bess, the former, a 

 splendid fox-hound and a good matron, being by Harper 

 out of Spiteful, and the latter by Acrobat out of Fearless. 

 Harlequin and Agnes also had a valuable bitch in Abigail, 

 a rare worker, as fierce at a fox as her sire, and the dam 

 of good puppies. Abbess's sister Adelaide was also a good 

 bitch, and Handmaid, a sister of Hengist and Hopeful, was 

 another. Handsome and Hornet, two daughters of Harper 

 and Fortune, put forward in 1896, were both hard runners. 



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