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Ms name. Lonsdale Harper brought in blindness, 

 and as Will observed in italics, " Mark that doion 

 as a beacon ."' Drake's Bajazet, Sykes^s Trick- 

 ster, "a capital finder/' and Yarboro' Dasbwood, 

 the sire of Driver, all did well, and even Eoljambe's 

 Vanlter, ^^a great fiat- sided soft brute,'' got rare 

 stock. He was the only hound that Will ever left 

 on the road home, as he tired to nothing in the 

 Hirsel country, and had to stop at the schoolmaster's 

 near Blinkbonny. Still, his Viner and Yesta (whose 

 brother Yictory was drowned in a conduit) he consi- 

 ders " the very best I ever saw." Rutland's Bertram 

 he dismissed in his own quaint way : "He was not 

 knocked on the head, but sent to me ;" Rutland's 

 Fervent was "a wild flyaway beast — W^ill Goodall shot 

 flying about him a bit ;" Rutland's Rocket was " well 

 enough ;" Rutland's General " was sent here as a good 

 asylum, but his sou General was a capital finder^ 

 and in look and disposition a thorough foxhound 

 — that was my best hit from the Rutland kennel."" 

 Assheton Smith's Senator was used a great deal, and 

 was "varra weel ;" York and Ainsty Tarquin, "a plain 

 dog but a good stallion,'^ was the sire of Trywell, 

 " who would do her best to knock over her fox, and 

 then would never join in breaking it up. " Lunar — 

 "that's a sort of astronomical theory — when Lord 

 John Scott saw this name in the entry, he 

 dropped heavily on to me about being among 

 the stars. The}^ chaffed me about everything. 

 Lord John and all the rest of them. No one rode 



