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is by Lord Fitzhardinge's Dervis, and his 

 Holocaust, by Hector, a son of Hotspur and 

 Nettletop. Dervis was by Dorchester and 

 Midnight, all of them running through a 

 long line, bred at the Berkeley kennels, by 

 the late Earl. Druid is a dark black and 

 white hound, with little tan, of great bone, 

 proclaiming a hardy constitution, and he 

 possesses the inestimable qualification of nose. 

 Smuggler, Sultan, Sailor, and Sportsman, of 

 the same year, are entitled to claim especial 

 notice ; they are the produce of the Oakley 

 Sultan and Sylvia. First in the list of 

 hounds that have been entered four seasons, 

 and demanding particular respect, are Ando- 

 ver, Abelard, Arrogant, Amazon, Artful, and 

 Actress. It is not often that so many as 

 three couples of hounds, all of one litter, are 

 kept in work to their fourth season ; and this 

 is a fact quite sufficient to proclaim their 

 goodness, and the soundness of their consti- 

 tutions. Actress and Artful have already 

 been introduced as the mothers of two capital 

 litters just entered. These hounds are bred 

 from Lord Fitzhardinge's Andover and Bar- 

 bara, by the Pytchley Barrister, and their 

 Sono^stress. Andover was a son of the late 



