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in the field on the preceding day, doing a 

 great share of work with a very defective 

 scent. Tamerlane, her brother, is a very 

 useful young hound. Trimbush and Talisman 

 are of the same litter. Of the two seasons' 

 hunters, Autocrat, from Mr. Farquharson's 

 kennel, is a smart, useful hound, and he has 

 three sisters — Abigail, Affable, and Amazon 

 — worthy of notice. Amethyst, to whom I 

 had a special introduction in honour of her 

 being the first to find her fox in the gorse on 

 the preceding day, is from the Heythrop 

 kennels, a daughter of Ajax and Gladsome, 

 nice and airy with good shoulders. Here- 

 ford, a powerful young hound with a most 

 intelligent head, whose exploits during the 

 three seasons he has been at work have gained 

 great fame for him, was bred at the Berkeley 

 kennels, and is a son of Mr. Morrell's Fleecer 

 and the late Earl Fitzhardinge's Hyacinth. 

 Heroine, a four season hunter, by Hercules, 

 entered by Sir Richard Sutton, bears a strik- 

 ing resemblance to her mother, Mr. Morrell's 

 Spangle, transferred to the Duke of Beaufort's 

 kennels at the sale for fifty guineas. Telltale, 

 a great favourite, accompanied the huntsman 



