"G. S. L." ON THE NORTH STAFFORD HOUNDS. 101 



Bangor. Nabob, bj' Newsman, I like very much, and through his dam, Faithful, 

 he goes back into old kennel sorts in somewhat the same way as the others ; 

 whilst if Saffron, by the Rolvoir Stainless, out of Vivid, by Valiant, cannot boast 

 of quite as much quality as his well-known and popular sire, he has, at any rate, 

 plenty of bone, and stands on the best of legs and feet ; he will be used both on 

 account of his great goodness as a workman and on account of his exceptional 

 pedigree, which can be traced by looking into the text of this report. This made 

 up last year's dog entry, and I concluded that there are three or four stallion 

 hounds amongst them, and the blood of all the lot goes back to the Cheshire 

 Bangor, who was a performer in that great hunt somewhere between 1H40 

 and 1850. 



" The bitch entry was supposed to be rather better than the dogs, and it was 

 much stronger also in point of numbers, as, out of the fourteen couples of puppies 

 put on, nine and a half couples were contributions to the bitcli pack. Bonnylass, 

 by Wan-ior, out of Baneful, was a single puppy, but she is very neat, and so are 

 the sisters Glorious and Graceful, of the Newsman and Guilty litter ; but almost 

 the pride of the wiiole entry is a litter of three couple, of sisters, all put on — 

 namely, Loyalty, Lawless, Legacy, Lavish, Ladybird, and Laundress, by the 

 North Cheshue Linkboy, a son of the Meynell Linkboy, by their Manager, whose 

 pedigree can be traced for a hundred years; and the dam of these sisters is 

 Harriet, still in the kennel, and by the Atherstone Solon, out of Handmaid, by 

 Mr. Hill's Dexter, out of Harmony, a daughter of Bracelet, as I have stated above. 

 There is material enough in this litter to breed a pack of hounds from, as they 

 are all good-looking, Legacy and Lawless being first and second cup puppies, and 

 both are beautiful Belvoir tans, whilst in their work, Dickins says, nothing can 

 be smarter. Lawless, he should almost think, being the fastest bitch in the pack. 

 There is another bitch in the entry that might equal these in good looks — namely. 

 Spinster, sister to Sallron, the Belvoir Stainless dog that I have noticed, this 

 bitch being all Belvoir in quality, and I was glad to hear the good opinion 

 entertained by Dickins of the son and daughter of Stainless as performers in the 

 field. There are three very sharp-looking sisters by Warrior, out of Magic, 

 namely, Wo.thy, Welcome, and Witchcraft, and well-bred ladies these are, as 

 Warrior was out of Bonnybell, a descendant in very direct line from the Cheshire 

 Bangor, with some notable blood thrown in besides, as the sire of AVarrior was 

 Whynot, a son of the Fitzhardinge Wonder. I admired these young l)itclies 

 very much when seen together, and I thought they added very much to the 

 beauty of the whole bitch pack ; and a good entry always does do this, as there 

 is a freshness about young bitches in their first season that is likely enough to 

 give a smartness to the whole. The Marquis of Stafford's bitch pack, though, is a 

 treat for any lover of hounds to look at, as they are very level, a trifle bigger in pro- 

 portion to what the dogs are, being, I should say, good twenty-two inches, so about 

 the same as the present Belvoir bitch pack, that is a little bit bigger in standard 

 than it used to be, and also the Grafton. To select a few for good looks, there is 

 Diligent, by Gallant, out of Dimple, and Favourite, a badger pied, and also a 

 daughter of Gallant's; Alpha, a gi-and, long, low bitch, by Bondsman, out of 

 Adelaide; and Spangle and Sportley, sisters of a very good class, by Bondsman, 

 out of Starlight ; not forgetting Daisy, one of the best-shaped ones in the whole 

 pack, and she is by the Bramham ^loor Gambler, out of Dimple, by Mr. Chaplin's 

 old favourite, Druid. 



" Coming to the stallion hounds, I am reminded that the sires in great favour 

 with the Marquis of Stafford have been the Blankney. He used Druid a gieat 

 deal, and also Sportsman, Piitleman, Woldsman, Gamester, Guider, and Champion. 



