824 HUNTING TOURS. 



been widely dispersed in many packs of 

 fame. 



The present list contains the names of 

 fifty-four couples of hounds, whereof sixteen 

 couples are of this year's entry, and they are 

 divided into two packs, the large and the 

 small. The nomenclature is headed by a re- 

 spectable old matron, Beatrice, who, although 

 in her eighth season, can take her turn and 

 run up ; she is the dam of a couple of useful 

 young hounds, Bedford and Benedick, the 

 former with abundance of bone to recom- 

 mend him. Promise, a year younger, a nice- 

 shaped daughter of the Duke of Beaufort's 

 Prodigal, has a worthy son in Priam, by 

 the Belvoir Gamester. The next is Comfort, 

 descended from Lord Fitzhardinge's Chal- 

 lenger and Tidings. Going back to the Duke 

 of Grafton's sort, she transmits the good 

 blood of the Berkeley kennels to Remnant, 

 by Sir Watkin Wynn's Royal ; this was 

 one of the candidates for honours at the 

 recent hound show at Birmingham, and it 

 is inexplicable to me why she did not take 

 with the judges in preference to Lapwing. 

 Comfort had also another litter by Welling- 

 ton — Crazy, Comely, Countess, and Cautious, 



