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petuate his species in these kennels ; and 

 Hoyden, a daughter of the Duke of Beau- 

 fort's Trojan and his Hasty, is also kept 

 to breed from. Trojan was a son of the 

 Warwickshire Tarquin, a capital sort in their 

 work, as all masters of hounds and huntsmen 

 admit who have had any of that blood. The lot 

 which Lord Curzon purchased at the sale of 

 the North Warwickshire hounds in May last, 

 consisted of six couples, whereof two couples 

 and a half were of the black and tan 

 family. Lively, Lottery, Lounger, and Liberty, 

 by Manager and Lofty, but they were not 

 all of the same year. Manager, their sire, 

 a very superior hound, remarkably well bred, 

 came in an unentered draft from the Hey- 

 throp, and was a son of their Ferdinand and 

 Matchless. The other hound of this strain 

 is Nectar, by Wenlock, through whom the 

 black and tan blood is conveyed, and Nose- 

 gay. Of the value of this cross I entertain 

 no doubt, having been witness to so much 

 excellence through successive generations, 

 dating almost from the time when, in the 

 neighbourhood of Bridgnorth, in the sporting- 

 county of Salop, the infusion was first intro- 

 duced. I do not mean to declare that every 



