ON THE FLAGS AND IN THE SHOW RING. 



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exceptionally well-bred hounds, and did good service in 

 other kennels as well as in the home one. Unfortunately, 

 however, there is nothing forthcoming about their merits 

 beyond what the Stud Book has to record. 



Guider and Helen were a couple of remarkably good- 

 looking young hounds, as their portrait shows. They were 

 shown at Pontefract in i860, and won for the best couple 

 of unentered hounds. This Show, however, must not be 

 mistaken for the forerunner of the Peterborough Hound 

 Show, which was held in connection with the Cleveland 

 Show until 1S64. Guider was by General (the hound, it will 

 be remembered, who figures in the presentation-portrait ol 

 Mr. Fox) — Cowslip, and Helen was by Mr. Percy Williams's 

 H elpmate — Bantling. 



But it would be tedious to give a bare list of the hounds 

 that have made themselves a name at the stud, so I will 

 hasten on to a later period, when something more than mere 

 name and pedigree can be related. When Smith went to 

 Bramham he found a famous sire named Mountebank. He 

 was by Mr. Leigh's Merryman — Affable, by Lord Poltimore's 

 Archer. A bi"-, fine hound, he was used a great deal both at 

 home and in other kennels, but he was about worn out when 

 Smith went, and he saw little of him in the field. A younger 

 hound was Gaylad, by Gamester — Affable, and consequently 

 a half brother to Mountebank. Gamester was by Gainer — 

 Stately, and Gainer was by General. Gaylad was a powerful 

 hound, with a good neck and shoulders, well ribbed, and 

 with plenty of bone. He was a good hound in his work, 

 and was a resolute hound from the first. 



One morning, after a lot of work in Hazlewood, they 

 went to Haighton, where they found a cub, and after a lot 

 of work in covert, they forced a cub out into the park and 

 into a pond, where hounds lost view of him. But Gaylad 

 was all there, and catching sight of the fox swimming, he 

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