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Grove, and Mr. Osbaldeston's kennels is in- 

 variably selected by his lordship. Mr. Fol- 

 jambe's twin brothers, Herald and Harbinger, 

 whose descendants are so extensively dis- 

 persed through the most fashionable kennels 

 of the present day, w^ere in great force a few 

 years prior to the sale. They were the issue 

 of Mr. Osbaldeston's Ranter and Mr. Fol- 

 jambe's Harpy. Ranter was a sou of the 

 Squire's ever-celebrated Furrier and Ruin, 

 Furrier, by the Duke of Rutland's Saladin 

 and his Grace's Fallacy, Saladin a son of 

 Sultan and Golden. Harpy, the dam of 

 Herald and Harbinger, was a daughter of a 

 former Herald, bred by Mr. Foljambe, and 

 Julia, and the last-named Herald was a son 

 of the Duke of Rutland's Hermit, by Saladin 

 out of his Grace's Harpy. I am thus dis- 

 cursive in tracing the pedigree, as it shows 

 that Saladin was the great grandsire of 

 Herald and Harbinger, both in the male and 

 female line ; and, although I am quite opposed 

 to close consanguinity in breeding either horses 

 or hounds, it does not appear that in the 

 third generation any injurious or degenerate 

 effects are produced. Lord Henry Bentinck 

 appears to have made another addition to 



