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their ways with becoming punctuality and 

 good taste, obtaining from the Belvoir 

 kennels divers acquisitions of fresh sires, 

 and also from Lords Thanet's and Gains- 

 borough's, Mr. Smith's, and Mr. Mundy's. 

 It was not the custom of that period on 

 all occasions to name the produce with 

 the initial letter of one of the parents, 

 neither do I find it to have been adopted till 

 1816. Ringwood, a wonderful celebrity of 

 his day, first saw the light in 1788. A son 

 of Neptune and Vestal, his pedigree traces 

 principally through Brocklesby lineage, with 

 occasional introductions from Mr. Meynell's, 

 Lord Fitzwilliam's, and Mr. Noel's. His 

 portrait, also by Stubbs, adorns the parlour 

 in the huntsman's house, and his numerous 

 progeny occupy very distinguished places in 

 the kennel lists of subsequent years. Red- 

 rose, his sister, also contributed her part in 

 providing future generations of celebrity. 

 She was the dam of Ranter, with Dover for 

 her partner, and he is thus recorded in the 

 huntsman's notes for the year 1790 : — " Ran- 

 ter, a very famous hound and stallion ; his 

 blood has always been reputed for being as 

 stout or stouter than any other in England, 



