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some more hounds came to her help and he was 

 despatched. 



Earity (1890), a hound bred by Mr Merthyr 

 Guest, was the mother of many good litters in the 

 latter years of his mastership. She was a daughter 

 of the Hon. Mark Rolle's Bajazet (1881), and 

 through her dam Rosemary (1885), daughter of 

 the Oakley Newsman (1877), she strained back 

 in two lines to Kuby (1864), to the Bel voir Guider, 

 and to Lord Portsmouth's Commodore and Mr 

 Villebois' Matchless. In 1893 three and a half 

 couples of Rarity's sons and daughters by Mr 

 Bayer's-^ Templar appear among the entry, and in 

 the following year one and a half couples of hers 

 by the Crawley and Horsham Senator were entered. 

 Of the latter family Bama and her brother Baleigh 

 were hounds of very marked character. 



Bama, a bright tan-and-white with a very in- 

 telligent head, was a useful hound in the field, 

 but she had a curious characteristic that was 

 not so much to her credit. No power and no 

 persuasion would induce her to come home with 

 the pack after a day's hunting. She would go 

 to covert in the morning demurely enough, and 

 she hunted in a most businesslike manner, but 

 directly the day's sport was over her good conduct 

 came to an end. The moment the hounds and 

 whippers-in grouped together and the Master 

 gave the word for " home," Bama would set off 

 by herself and race up hill and down dale till she 



1 Mr Rayer hunted the Tiverton country from 1873 to 1892. 



