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Beaufort's Bondsman and Lord Fitzhardinge's 

 Rakish, a daughter of Sir Richard Sutton's 

 Rambler. Splendour, a fine, commanding 

 young hound, is another worthy representative 

 of the Saffron family, through Sportsman, 

 and he secured a cup for the farmer who 

 reared him. By the same sire is Stormer, a 

 dark blue hound of great length ; his colour, 

 by the way, is sometimes characteristic of 

 Saffron's descendants. A very nice litter of 

 three couples, from Abelard and Tempest, 

 includes Tapster, Tippler — an unsuccessful 

 candidate for fame at Birmingham, with capital 

 shoulders and true symmetry to recommend 

 him — Tyrant, Truelass, very elegant, Toilet, 

 and Twilight, all of them with nice necks, and 

 good heads well set on. Abelard was a son of 

 Ganymede and the Berkeley Actress, by their 

 Boxer, a son of Lord Gifford's Boniface. In 

 their second season are Gracious, Governess, 

 and Gaiety, very striking in their appearance, 

 full of the Warwickshire Tarquin and Saffron 

 blood, the issue of Sportsman and Gossip, 

 Tarquin's granddaughter. Gracious had been 

 sent on a visit to Berkeley, where she was 

 introduced to Cromwell, and I shall watch the 

 result with much interest. The blood is 



