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nearly allied, as Cromwell is a son of Lord 

 Henry Bentinck's Contest and Crazy, by the 

 Warwickshire Tarquin ; Pillager, Pleasant, 

 Paragon, and Pastime, all of a remarkably 

 nseful stamp, are by another Tarquin, bred at 

 the Pytchley kennels, by their Trojan and 

 Hopeful. Sailor, a ticked hound, with great 

 length and speedy proportions, another candi- 

 date for honours at Birmingham, is also a 

 representative of the Sportsman family and 

 Testy, already mentioned as the dam of 

 Stormer. Statesman, a good-looking, hare- 

 pied hound, is by Sir Richard Sutton's Bajazet 

 and Symphony. Trueman, a prize-taker, 

 Traitor, Trumpeter, Tragedy, Termagant, and 

 Tulip, very neat and of good colour, are by 

 the aforesaid Abelard out of Tempest, bred 

 by Mr. Assheton Smith, a daughter of his 

 Trojan and Rosemary. Actor and Ajax, in 

 their third season, particularly wiry and 

 clever, are also descended from Tempest and 

 Lord Leconfield's Archer, a hound of immense 

 power, and rather above the average standard, 

 but whose progeny do not appear to exceed 

 those good proportions which are so commonly 

 appreciated. Monitor is a very good-looking, 

 useful hound, and has, perhaps, more bone 



