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the sire of four couples in last season's entry. 

 I should select Denmark, a fine black and white 

 tan coloured hound, and Dairymaid as the 

 cleverest. Wildfire is the mother of these 

 two. Handmaid, of undeniable parentage, a 

 daughter of Harold and Sir E. Sutton's 

 Columbine, having received more care than 

 usually awaits young foxhounds, from the 

 fostering hands at Ferney Hall, the delightful 

 residence of Mr. Sitwell, where she was 

 reared, is a great and deserving favourite. 

 Two couples, Reveller, Roderick, Rambler, 

 and Remnant, the produce of the Albrighton 

 Reveller and Trinket, are a useful litter, of 

 nice size, and Remnant has already distin- 

 guished herself for wonderful determination 

 and resolution. The height of these hounds, 

 judging by the eye, is under three-and-tvrenty 

 inches — perhaps, indeed, two-and-twenty and 

 a half would be the average. It is a size 

 admirably adapted to this country, where 

 tall lathy hounds would be comparatively 

 useless. 



Having now served an apprenticeship as a 

 master of foxhounds, Mr. Sitwell has been 

 able to form his pack according to his wishes, 

 and most successful has he been in the exer- 



