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could have expected to see, the dam, Bonny 

 Lass, being the issue of the North Safford- 

 shire Brilliant and a bloodhound bitch. 

 Harold is the sire of the hound in question. 

 Mr. Sitwell very judiciously appreciates the 

 value of the bloodhound strain, having ob- 

 tained the services of Wenlock from the 

 North Warwickshire, a family I have had 

 good reason to mention in the highest terms 

 on other occasions. At the time I was at 

 Leamington, Wenlock was paying his devoirs 

 at these kennels, consequently he did not 

 come under my notice; nevertheless, he is 

 an old acquaintance. He possesses a distant 

 cross of the bloodhound on both sides, being 

 descended from the Wheatland Warrior and 

 their Wanton. In height he is about twenty- 

 three inches, a nice colour, black, Avhite, and 

 tan, with plenty of substance, and has all the 

 characteristics of a superior foxhound. Com- 

 modore and Traveller are two-season hunters 

 of rather singular appearance, a sort of mot- 

 tled, hare-pied colour; the former, a remark- 

 ably neat hound, with good shoulders, is out 

 of Trinket; the latter, a smart hound, but 

 rather deficient in bone, is out of Timely, a 

 daughter of Tomboy and Trinket. Dryden is 



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