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what similar lineage, in his maternal escut- 

 cheon, through Welfare, a descendant of the 

 Belvoir Comus and Lord Henry Bentinck's 

 Wrangle. To Statesman may, I think, be 

 accorded the credit of being the cleverest 

 on the flags, and a wide cast must be made 

 to find one better bred. The Belvoir Gambler 

 is his sire. Syren his dam. Gambler was a 

 son of Rifler and Gaylass, and to Syren all 

 honour is due as daughter of Lord Henry 

 Bentinck's Contest. The notice of stallion 

 hounds concludes with Romer, a nice active, 

 airy young hound, in his second season, very 

 clever about his head and neck. His paternal 

 ancestor, the Duke of Rutland's Singer, was 

 a son of Comus and Syren ; and his dam. 

 Ringlet, was bred by Sir Richard Sutton from 

 Trueman and Roguish. 



The matrons are of an especially high 

 order, and would be ornaments to many 

 packs of much longer standing. In my 

 travels I can see plenty of dog-hounds of 

 good size, with abundance of bone; but it 

 is difficult to meet with those of the other 

 sex having corresponding power; many of 

 them, however, were in the apartment neces- 

 sarily devoted to their accommodation, and 



