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and died not very long afterwards. He was, indeed, 

 a great loss. Clasher is a very good-looking dog by 

 Vaulter, out of Cowslip. Like his sire, he is an 

 excellent hound, and is generally the first to pick up 

 the scent at a check. Wild Boy is a white and fawn 

 by Warwickshire Wild Boy, from Chauntress, one of 

 the same litter. Welcome is, in my opinion, the pick 

 of the kennel, few better-looking bitches ever pro- 

 claimed a find. Strange to say, she has to be kept 

 with the dog hounds, as she would fight with her own 

 sex. Touchstone and Traffic are by Vaulter, from 

 Tell-tale, a famous bitch ; some of the blood has been 

 in the kennel for very many years. Dewdrop and 

 Despot, by Cambridgeshire Gransden. out of Darling, 

 are both good and good-looking. I regret to say that 

 one of the same litter (Duster) was killed recently in 

 a field by a gentleman riding over him. Mr. Filgate 

 says that he never owned a better dog. Abigail by 

 Warwickshire Wild Boy, out of Ardent, is very good 

 looking, and a first-rate bitch. Her brother, Charon, 

 is a very big hound, yet a well-put-together one. 

 Rufus is a very valuable dog, with good shapes, low 

 and lengthy. The next on my note-book, Marmion, 

 by Majesty, out of Charity, is first-rate at marking to 

 ground; a sister, named Madcap, is thought a great 

 deal about ; the third of the litter, Marplot, I did not 

 like at all. A fawn, named Lapwing, by Lord Fitz- 

 hardinge's Gainsborough, out of Liberty, is very shy, 

 but, I am told, very good. Comus and Careless are 

 by Mr. North's Random, from Cheerful; the last- 

 mentioned is highly spoken of by Mr. Filgate. 

 Bondsman, by Cambridgeshire Scamper, from Brevity, 

 is one of the best-bred dogs in the pack, and the only 



