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his forces by a purchase at the sale of the 

 late Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds, in 1855, 

 and the very ample means at his command 

 for obtaining walks have enabled him to breed 

 very extensively. The three brothers — Con- 

 test, entered in 1847, Comrade and Crafts- 

 man, in 1848 — by his lordship's Comus and 

 Sanguine, bred by Mr. Foljambe, have dif- 

 fused their very excellent and invaluable 

 qualities in many kennels with which I am 

 acquainted. There are many of their des- 

 cendants in the Duke of Beaufort's, the 

 Cotswold, and Lord Fitzhardinge's kennels. 

 In the latter, Cromwell, a son of Contest, is 

 frequently mentioned by me on other occa- 

 sions, and he with his numerous family would 

 alone be sufficient to establish the celebrity of 

 the ancestry. Sir Richard Sutton also patro- 

 nised them considerably, as his list for 1853 

 contains the names of three couples and a half 

 of Contest's progeny and two couples of Crafts- 

 man's, Contest was one of the most perfect 

 hounds I ever saw, certainly excelling the 

 other two in style and symmetry. As many as 

 ten summers are numbered with the past since 

 I had last the opportunity of admiring him, 

 but I still have his fine commanding form 



