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digal and Bellflower, bred at Berkeley, and 

 Brusher, by Lord Fitzwilliam's Batchelor and 

 his Frolicsome, are two useful hounds ; and a 

 black and white bitch. Primrose, daughter of 

 the Heythrop Prodigal and Lady, an inmate 

 of the Berkeley kennels, is remarkably neat 

 and elegant. 



I must now try back — a proceeding at 

 times as imperative with the pen as with the 

 pack — in order to make good the line. In 

 the list the name of Active, sister to Awful, 

 appears ; but she had met with a singular and 

 untimely death. The whippers-in were walk- 

 ing out the hounds, when she slipped away 

 from them unobserved at the moment, and 

 before she was missed and her whereabout 

 discovered, had got to a tub of wash which 

 was sunk into the ground, and having fallen 

 in, head foremost, was drowned. What makes 

 this loss still more to be regretted, it was for 

 rearing her that the first prize — a silver cup 

 presented by Mr. Colmore — was awarded to 

 Mr. Charles Cooke, of Taddington. The 

 second prize, a silver liquor stand, was given 

 to Mr. Edward Griffiths, of Marie Hil], for 

 walking: Wamba. Araonfi: the workino^ hounds 

 were several old acquaintances which I knew 



