224 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



him in 1884. Newsman was a well-shaped hound 

 and had some of the best of foxhound blood in him. 

 Two dog-hounds, Mexico and Mentor, sired by him 

 in 1885, took the first and third prizes respectively 

 of their year, and became two of the best workers 

 in the pack. Mexico, a 24 -inch hound, was the 

 handsomer of the two, and in the markings of his 

 face the rich Belvoir tan was seen to perfection. 

 He had excellent legs and feet, well set-on neck 

 and good shoulders, and great depth through the 

 heart. Mentor was a black-and-white hound, but 

 was an even better worker than his brother, and 

 when the pack were racing heads up and sterns 

 down over the Vale, he was sure to be running at 

 their head. The dam of this couple was Mecca 

 (1878), a daughter of Mr Muster's Rufus. 



In the same year, 1885, Mr Guest brought new 

 blood into the kennel with hounds that he bought 

 at the sale of the New Forest pack when Mr 

 Meyrick gave up that country. From these 

 hounds Mr Guest bred successfully, and Warspite 

 (1887), a grandson of Lord Portsmouth's Render 

 and great-grandson of Mr Muster's Rufus, was 

 the son of the New Forest Wakeful (1881). 

 Warspite was a square-built hound of good colour 

 and with excellent neck and shoulders. A very 

 good litter, of which four couples were entered in 

 1886, were by the New Forest Striver, son of 

 the Grafton Silence, their dam being Romance 

 (1883), a granddaughter of Mr Muster's Rufus, 

 and through her grandam going back to the old 



