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clever hound, Conqueror, by Lord Fitzhar- 

 dinge's Cromwell and Telltale, also of Berkeley 

 origin. Harper, Hazard, Hasty, and Harmony 

 comprise a promising litter by Lord Fitzhar- 

 dinge's Palmerston and the Worcestershire 

 Handmaid, a daughter of the Warwickshire 

 Saffron. Hasty, with capital thighs and stylish 

 appearance, though not one of the elect at 

 Birmingham, deserves notice for having found 

 favour with the judges, who awarded a cup to 

 the farmer for bringing her to maturity, and 

 Hazard exhibits a wonderful likeness to his 

 maternal grandsire, Palmerston. The father 

 of these young hounds is a son of Factor and 

 Paragon ; Factor, by Farmer, a great favourite 

 in his day at the Berkeley kennels. Manager 

 and Merrylass have also the Saffron blood in 

 their veins. Sportsman, their sire, being a son of 

 Saffron and the Berkeley Charity, daughter of 

 Drunkard and Cora ; Rakish, though rather 

 small, but exceedingly neat, deserves very 

 honourable mention for her performance, to 

 which I can bear testimony, hunting a cold 

 scent with wonderful precision over some 

 exceedingly dry ploughed land, in pursuit of 

 a fox found at Ganna on the day they met at 

 Grafton. She is the produce of the Duke of 



