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justice to their parentage in the Cotswold 

 kennels. Neighbour's progeny were generally 

 very fine in their coats, and altogether charac- 

 teristic of high breeding. Symphony is also 

 the mother of Sultan, a reddish-pied hound of 

 fine symmetry, a year older than Stratagem. 

 Sultan is a son of Mr. Foljambe's Masker. 

 Of the same age is Trollop, a powerful, short- 

 legged daughter of Traveller and Bracelet. 

 Music, a five-season hunter, chanted harmo- 

 niously, and displayed her powers to perfection 

 in the run from Ganna. In the same year are 

 Active and Animate, by Lord Fitzhardinge's 

 Abelard and Winifred, daughter of the Duke 

 of Beaufort's Warlock and his Patience. In ray 

 description of Mr. Tailby's hounds, I remarked 

 that he had three couples of hounds of the 

 same litter working in their fourth season, as 

 an event of not common occurrence. Sino-u- 



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larly enough, a very similar case occurred in 

 these kennels last season — Active and Ani- 

 mate, with their brother and sisters, numbering 

 two couples and a half; but what renders this 

 more interesting, Mr, Tailby's and Colonel 

 Clowes's are very nearly related, Mr. Tailby's 

 being by Andover, a son of Abelard, the sire 

 of Colonel Clowes's hounds. 



