THE LOUTH HOUNDS. II5 



preferred Courtesy, a very good-looking hound. 

 Violet, by Viceroy, from Rosey, is a very neat bitch, 

 but not built on a big scale. Her sire has proved a 

 very great acquisition at the stud, and was got by Sir 

 Watkin Wynn's Cardinal, out of Vengeance. Gainer 

 and Gambler are by Guider, from Affable ; the former 

 very good-looking, the latter a capital worker, 

 Harry Hardy assured me. A trio by Viceroy, out of 

 Darling, are promising, and one of them (Daffodil) is 

 a very neat and symmetrical hound. Volatile — a 

 black and white by Viceroy, from Bashful — I admired 

 greatly, but Vagabond, one of the same litter, I did 

 not think much of. Gallant, by the Cambridgeshire 

 Gransden, is not faultless by any means. Countess 

 and Crazy, by the same sire, out of Cheerful, are a 

 pair of "beauties;" the most fastidious critic could 

 scarcely find a fault with Crazy. A quartette by the 

 Meath Beauford, from Affable, all pleased me, and 

 the veriest tyro would be struck with the good looks 

 of Ambush. Vagrant, out of Cheerful, by Viceroy, 

 is a very good-looking dog, with well-shaped feet, 

 capital shoulders and loins. The cross between the 

 Warwickshire Nestor and Affable by the Meath 

 Argus, out of Magic, was most successful, as the five 

 of the latter are all good, strong, useful-looking 

 hounds. Nimble has not the good looks of the 

 others, but Nestor is a rare, good-looking dog in every 

 respect, and, I believe, one of the best of the pack. 

 Nelly, the only other of this litter, was taken to 

 Meath, but unfortunately she went blind. Nestor was 

 thought a great deal of ; but he was old when he came 

 over here, and the night he arrived at Lisrenny he 

 strayed away, but was found in the county Kildare, 



