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disposed of by auction at the kennels, by 

 Messrs. Tattersall, on the nth. There was 

 a very good attendance. Amongst others 

 Sir Wilham Throckmorton, Mr. Garth, Mr. 

 Drake, Mr. Wharton Wilson, Master of the 

 V.W.H., Goddard, Huntsman to Lord 

 Fitzwilliam ; Clarke, to Duke of Beaufort ; 

 Payne to Sir W. Watkin Wynn, Messrs. 

 Bennett, Bowles, Starky, T. Duffield, C. P. 

 Duffield, J. Blandy Jenkins, E. M. Atkins, 

 E. K. Lenthall, and a strong muster from the 

 Craven country and from Oxford. Mr. All- 

 sopp purchased many of the hounds, and Mr. 

 Walker bought largely for the Leicestershire 

 country. The day was very wet and cold, 

 which appeared to damp the spirits of the 

 company. Biddings were not at all spirited, 

 and the sum total of pack and stud was much 

 below the anticipated amount. The horses, 

 twenty-four in number, realised ^1561, an 

 average of ^65 each. The highest fetched 

 170, and the lowest 25 guineas. The pack 

 consisted of forty-one and a-half couples of 

 working hounds, with twenty-four unentered 

 and six bitches with whelps, and made 

 altogether ^961. 



For the last season the hounds had 

 appeared to be slack, and refused to break 

 up their foxes when they had killed them. 

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