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includes a considerable number of remarkably 

 good-looking hounds, purchased at Mr. 

 Drake's sale last spring, comprising a vast 

 deal of the Belvoir blood. The price given 

 for the two lots of four couples each was 

 405 guineas, only one of which has been 

 drafted. The Billesdon establishment is very 

 fortunate with this season's entry, consisting 

 of eleven couples; Nabob, Nero, and Norma 

 are particularly clever, descended from Noble 

 (a black and white hound, showing great 

 style and quality, a son of Lord Yarborough's 

 Noble and the Duke of Rutland's Dulcet) 

 and Actress, a daughter of Lord Fitzhar- 

 dinge's Andover, whose pedigree will be 

 introduced. Norma is entitled to special 

 distinction, one of the cups annually pre- 

 sented by Mr. Tailby for walking puppies 

 falling to the share of the farmer to whom 

 she was entrusted. Juggler and Juryman, 

 the former another cup hero, are fine, power- 

 ful young hounds, sons of Clasher and Judy, 

 the dam a combination from the Pytchley and 

 Milton kennels ; Julia, of the same litter, is 

 remarkably neat, though somewhat light of 

 bone. Attica, a very nice black, white, and 

 tan bitch, and her sister, Artifice, equally 



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