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the present date. We fiud, on reference to the Hound Lists, 

 that Oakley Newsman continued for some years to be a 

 favourite sire, and that the Cheshire, the Meynell, the 

 Belvoir, and the Atherstone kennels were all resorted to 

 for breeding purposes. In more recent and modern times 

 the Badminton, the Quorn, the Brocklesby, Lord Fitz- 

 hardinge's, the Warwickshire, the Cheshire, and a number 

 of other well-known kennels, have been visited, and without 

 wearying our readers with detail, we may safely say that 

 the North Staffordshire pack, both for appearance and 

 work, will hold its own well with any pack of hounds in 

 the country. The dog pack still averages about twenty- 

 three inches, the bitch pack about twenty-two inches, and 

 the average number of hounds kept is about fifty- eight to 

 sixty couple. For those who are really interested in 

 hound lore, and wish to study the pedigree question, we 

 propose to print the Hound Lists from the year 1887 to 

 the year 1902 in an appendix, and to this appendix we 

 refer the connoisseur. 



While on the subject of the hounds, we may take this 

 opportunity of referring to a very popular, and in our 

 judgment a very successful institution which the Duke 

 of Sutherland was one of the first Masters to introduce — 

 the anraal Puppy Judging Show and Luncheon. This 

 show and luncheon fixture began in the early days of 

 Lord Stafford's Mastership, and was carried on upon the 

 usual lines of such institutions — a show of the puppies, 

 prizes to the successful walkers, and the hospitable 

 luncheon afterwards to the members of the Hunt and the 

 tenant farmers and others. But shortly after Lord Staf- 

 ford's accession to the dukedom, the institution grew into 

 an affair of much greater importance, and an agricultural 

 show of stock and produce, the property of tenant farmers 

 in the country of the North Staffordshire Hunt, was 

 added, with substantial prizes, provided in the main by 

 the Duke, but supplemented by gifts from various mem- 

 bers of the Hunt. The show is generally held in July, in 

 the beautiful park at Trentham, near the kennels, the 



