202 HUNTING TOURS. 



the Duke of Beaufort's Foreman ; Fairplay 

 has engratiated himself wonderfully in favour 

 with Tom Leedham, who pronounces him the 

 best of the year. There is a good litter by the 

 Duke of Rutland's Agent, consisting of Agent, 

 Auditor, Adelaide, and Amethyst. The first 

 of these is a dark black and tan hound, 

 with very little white, with a truly sensible 

 head, significant of fox killing, and from 

 what I noticed of him in his work I was 

 highly pleased with him. Amethyst has 

 length, substance, and symmetry, calculated 

 to include her in the list of future matrons. 

 Royal, Rarity, and Relish, in the second sea- 

 son, are doing credit to their parentage. Sir 

 Watkin Wynn's Royal is their sire, and Fancy 

 their dam ; their constitutions are represented 

 as being extremely good, and they afford an 

 example of the great importance of breeding 

 from superlatively good qualities on both sides 

 the escutcheon. Dreadnought has been at 

 work four seasons, and is a good-looking 

 hound, with high character. Hebe, a re- 

 markably clever daughter of Hercules and 

 Celia, is of the same age. 



The Hoar Cross Hounds till recently have 

 not had a vast amount of sport to boast of, 



