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any other that has ever existed, which is, that from the time of 

 its first institution up to the present date three times, and three 

 times only, have drafts been sought from other packs, viz., in 

 1798, fifteen couple came from Lord Carlisle ; in 1 810, ten couple 

 from Mr. George Templer of Stover, in Devon ; and, 1817, seven 

 couple from Mr. Pelham. Herein, I have no doubt, lay the im- 

 mense superiority to which they have attained. In the first place, 

 being enabled to keep up the family likeness, and, as it were, 

 to know the distinguishing characteristics of each strain of blood 

 in the kennel ; and, in the next, putting no second-class hounds 

 forward, which drafts, except by accident, or the want of judg- 

 ment in those who turn them out, must be, although we know 

 that, from being backward at the time the selection Avas made, 

 or other causes, some perfect gems have at times been sent away 

 in a draft which no money could redeem to the original pack. 

 On the other hand, all the best kennels were ransacked for sires, 

 and earliest in the list we find young ones whose paternal 

 ancestry traces to the strains of Brocklesby, Lord Monson's, and 

 J\lr. Meynell's. Later on they went to Lord Lonsdale, Sir 

 Tatton Sykes, and Mr. Osbaldeston, and about 1844 or 1845 

 dipped pretty deeply into the Badminton blood ; but, why or 

 wdierefore I cannot say, celebrated as Mr. Foljambe's pack was. 

 Goosey appears to have held aloof from the Grove. The greatest 

 kennel hit was, however, made in Will Goodall's time, who took 

 the horn on Goosey's retirement, to whom, with Tom Flint, he 

 had turned the hounds for some years. This was when he 

 obtained the celebrated Ealleywood from Smith, of Brocklesby, 

 in exchange for Kaglan, about the year 1850. Ealleywood was 

 by Basilisk out of Eosebud, and Goodall said of him that he 

 was " a beautiful little short-legged dog, exceedingly light of 

 bone, but with beautiful legs and feet j" that "he was one of 

 the best-bred hounds in the Brocklesby kennel, and that Eose- 

 bud, his dam, worked up until she was ten years old, and was 

 never known to do anything wrong;" and, moreover, he said of 

 the sort, " they are perfection in their work, and everlasting." 



