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Sam and Toll wife's picture hangs in tlie drawing- 

 room, and, as Mr. Jardine says, "they began me." 

 She was by King Cob, and had three successive litters 

 to Sam. Miss Hannah, who was never beaten in her 

 puppy season, was one of five with Marmora. Toll- 

 wife's dam was ^Matilda Gillespie, who was slow, and, 

 like Tollwife, could live a long time. Mr. Nightin- 

 gale begged Mr. Jardine to send Matilda Gillespie 

 to King Cob, as his stock ran so stout and kept 

 their heads so well down. Motley, the sire of 

 David, Avas an own brother to Marmora and Miss 

 Hannah, and a first-class dog at Amesbury, Ash- 

 down, and Market AVeighton. He was a fast-driving 

 dog, and, per Mr. Nightingale, " he could use a hare 

 fastest, and put in more work than any greyhound 

 of his day." This Willie Keddie cordially endorses 

 with ^' he could strip 'em up without bending in Lid- 



The Tollwife stamina has never been lost in this 

 kennel ; and be it at Ridgway, Biggar, Kelso, Teviot- 

 side, Coquetdale, Broughton, Brampton, Brougham, 

 or the Waterloo, " if the Jardine dogs live through 

 the middle of the course they live to the finish." 

 They are always kept well all summer — a great 

 secret of success in coursing — for there is no more 

 determined man than their owner^ or one who suc- 

 ceeds better in everything he takes in hand. The 

 Baron by Kentish Fire from Linnet, '^a strong, 

 steady dog," is peculiarly associated with his name, 

 and showed what he was made of by beating Scot- 



