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and Waterloo are two neat little hounds, 

 by Garaeboj, bred by the late Mr. Stubbs, 

 their dam Wildfire, a sister to Wildboy, 

 Watchman, &c., but she is not of the same 

 litter, being a year older. Whynot, another 

 offspring of Wanton and Darter, is very 

 good-looking and a capital worker. This 

 Darter was a son of Lord Henry Bentinck's 

 Contest and Sir Richard Sutton's Daphne. 

 There are few hounds in existence so highly 

 distinguished for the excellence of their de- 

 scendants as these three brothers, Contest, 

 Comrade, and Craftsman. There is scarcely 

 a pack of hounds that I have visited during 

 the last five or six years that does not possess 

 some of their representatives, all of which do 

 honour to their parentage and the Burton 

 kennels. Good blood will distinguish itself 

 both in horses and hounds, and breeders who 

 respect it most are well repaid for their 

 attention. Bluster and Baronet, though 

 rather plain, are well spoken of for determin- 

 ation and stoutness. Brilliant is a capital 

 worker, possessing a remarkably close affinity 

 to the bloodhound, and with it a much 

 greater refinement of outline and a combina- 

 tion of the qualities of the foxhound than I 



