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dam^ was from a daughter of Monarch, which Mr. 

 Sharpe gave array. His grandson Jason also took 

 the hlood South. The most beautiful he ever got 

 was Mr. Sharpens ovrn What from Captain Wynd- 

 ham^s Whisk. Monarch won three times at the 

 Koman Camp, and Mercury four times. The 

 brothers were widely different in their styles, as 

 Mercury was " a desperate rusher, very clever with 

 his teeth, but not very fond of a young fence which 

 required a double effort." It was in one of these 

 fences at the Koman Camp that Hughie Graham got 

 stuck. "Hughie" was by Liddesdale, a son of Bowhill 

 (who was bred at the Duke of BuccleucVs) from 

 Queen of the May. There were four dogs and 

 two bitches in the litter, with Bell the Cat and 

 Bonnie Scotland amongst them, and Mr. Sharpe 

 challenged the Wiltshire men in vain to run five 

 puppies of one litter for j€50 the course and £500 

 the main. Queen of the May had black hairs 

 in her fawn, and so Mr. Daintree hated her. He 

 had got some puppies from Lord Stradbroke for 

 the use of King Col), and as he wanted the i\Iinerva 

 black, he sold "The Queen" for 25 gs. at Aldridge^s. 

 Like all the King Cobs, she "ran heads down and 

 backs up, as they ought to run," and when Mr. Night- 

 ingale saw her style at the Mid-Lo^thian Meeting, he 

 said at night that until she was fairly in her stride 

 he did not believe that there was a King Cob in all 

 Scotland. 



Bell the Cat was •''a flying rusher," and Bonnie 



