222 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



Picture (1864), of whose performance In the 

 field 1 have spoken,^ was a granddaughter of 

 Rufus, and a daughter of Lord Portsmouth's 

 Pender. Through her grandam Margaret (1875) 

 she united the best blood in the Blackmore Vale 

 pack, going back to Kama (1868), one of the 

 marvellous litter by Lord Poltimore's Voyager 

 ex Puby (1864), and to Milkmaid (1867), who 

 was by Lord Portsmouth's Commodore ex Mr 

 Villebois' Matchless. The same strains of blood 

 were seen in Pussian (1871), a hound much fav- 

 oured as a sire by Sir Pichard Glyn, and among 

 whose sons were Spartan (1874) and Falmouth 

 (1878), the latter of whom was one of the best 

 sires in the kennels when Mr Merthyr Guest 

 succeeded to the mastership in 1884, three and 

 a half couples of his being entered in that year. 

 Famous (1878) was a grandson of Pussian, and 

 many of his sons and daughters appear among 

 the entry in the latter years of Sir Pichard 

 Glyn's reign and the early ones of Mr Guest. 

 Through his dam Fatima (1874) Famous goes 

 back to the Belvoir Guider. Bribery (1881), who 

 has also been mentioned in the earlier part of 

 the book,^ was a great-granddaughter of Pussian, 

 and her pedigree strains back in three lines to 

 the Voyager -Puby litter, and both on the sire 

 and dam's side to the Commodore-Matchless union, 

 the sire also going back to the Belvoir Guider 

 and Mr Drake's Duster, and through the mating 



1 See p. 175. 2 gee p. 175. 



