HUNTING TOURS. 3 1 



splendid head and shoulders, and very thick 

 through the heart. Bachelor and Brevity 

 w^ere bred by Mr. Selby Lowndes. The latter 

 reminds me much of those fine lengthy 

 bitches for which Mr. Farquharson's kennel 

 was so highly celebrated, and with some of 

 whom Mr. Henry Villebois so surprised the 

 Duke of Beaufort's cubs when his grace 

 invited him to have six weeks' cub hunting 

 iu the Badminton woodlands. The five 

 season hunters include Rambler, Raglan, 

 and Rebel, sons of the Belvoir Rover, and 

 Lord Southampton's Folly, Dickens in- 

 formed me they are descended from Mr. 

 Osbaldeston's Furrier, a family ever held in the 

 highest estimation. Rufus, a light-coloured 

 hound, has the same blood in his veins through 

 Lord Southampton's Prizer and Mr. Selby 

 Lowndes's Rakish ; he is a clever hound, 

 and does credit to his celebrated ancestor. 

 Ransom, a nearly white bitch, very lengthy, 

 with finely developed muscles, came from 

 the South Wilts, and is a daughter of 

 Sultan and Rakish. Watchman, a powerful 

 good-looking black and white hound, son of 

 Lord Henry Bentinck's Challenger and Mr. 

 Selby Lowndes's Wisdom, is destined to per- 



