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In kennel tliey have about 33^ couple, Tvith eight 

 couple of young ones, principally got by their own 

 Harmattan of Rufford Helpmate, Wynnstay Romeo, 

 and Rufford Dreadnought blood. They have had 

 drafts these last five summers from Lord Middleton, 

 the Bramham, and Brocldesby, and latterly from 

 Lord Henry Bentinck. When the ten couple were 

 destroyed by poison in Killduff, Sir AYatkin, Lord 

 Fitzhardinge, the Vale of White Horse, and Lord 

 Doneraile all helped out. As usual, some of those died 

 which could have been least spared, and among them 

 22 brace of the best puppies, including Render, the cup 

 puppy Roister, which had also entered so beautifully, 

 and Yarboro' Handmaid, the best bitch in the pack. 

 They are now running the dogs and bitches separate, 

 and for choice they like to find at Bolton j\Iuir, and 

 go straight to the hills v.ith a traveller. Seaton 

 Gorse, near Gosford, some eighty yards from the 

 sea, is a sure find, and the foxes run along tlie v.est 

 to Archerfield, and are killed or more generally lost 

 on the Law. Sometimes they get on the ledges of the 

 rocks, and the hounds run great risks if they get a 

 view, and if they go over near St. Abb^s light- 

 house, they are seen and heard of no more. 



The puppies are judged every year in Mr. Hislop^s 

 coach manufactory at Haddington, and Primate and 

 Priestess, brother and sister, one bred by Mr. Wood and 

 the other by Mr. Kinloch, and both by Harmattan, 

 won the cups in '64. The old d og, v/ho has one eye cut 

 clean out, and his brother were in kennel with their 



