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breeders who have given attention to this 

 noble race of dog. Mr. Mangin was the 

 breeder of Ch. Hordle Hercules, a dog 

 of distinguished quality, and his prefix 

 is familiar to all admirers of the Blood- 

 hound. Hercules was the sire of the Cham- 

 pion bitch, Mirables Mischief, and many 

 another worthy representative of the breed. 

 The Duchess of Dunsborough, another 



as with philosophic thought, his flews deep 

 and square, his dewlap loosely hanging, 

 his whole expression that of an ancient 

 sphinx. He is surprisingly active and of 

 enduring strength. At tracking the clean 

 boot he justifies the reputation of his keen- 

 scented breed, and his hardy constitution 

 makes him impervious to all physical ills. 

 Probably he gets his hardiness from Wei- 



MR. ROBERT PRATTS HIPPOLYTA 



BY CH. PANTHER BRINDLESS. BRED BY MR. CHATAIN. 



bitch who won championship honours, was 

 also of Mr. Mangin's breeding. Mr. Croxton 

 Smith has the distinction of having bred, 

 amongst many other excellent hounds, 

 Ch. Hengist, now the treasured property 

 of Dr. C. C. Garfit, of Kirby Muxloe. 



Hengist is a magnificent upstanding 

 black-and-tan hound, twenty-seven inches 

 in height at the shoulder, with legs like 

 oak saplings for strength and firmness of 

 bone and muscle and sinew. His head is 

 significant of all that is aimed at in Blood- 

 hound type, high peaked and ponderous, 

 with low-set ears pendulous as a chancel- 

 lor's wig, his sombre, inscrutable eyes look- 

 ing out from their cavernous depths in 

 sage contemplation, his forehead furrowed 



fare, his dam, whose own dam, Ch. 

 What's Wanted, was a result of Mr. Mark 

 Beaufoy's outcross through Babylone, a 

 French hound derived from crossing a 

 Bloodhound with a Vendee and again cross- 

 ing with a St. Hubert. On his sire Pan- 

 ther's side Hengist is descended directly 

 from Mr. Ray's Roswell, and he hits back 

 to the famous Luath XI. Restless litter. 

 Restless herself was great-granddaughter 

 of Mr. Cowen's Druid ; while Juno, who 

 also is in Hengist's pedigree, was four 

 generations removed from Mr. Jenning's 

 Old Druid. Dr. Garfit's dog can therefore 

 be traced back in descent from all four of 

 the great Bloodhounds of the past, who are 

 recognised as the founders of the best strains. 



